Sunday, October 13, 2013

Obamacare Enthusiasm: Only 51,000 People Completed Applications after Week 1 (Auto-on audio)

Have you signed up for Obamacare?
Just 51,000 people completed Obamacare applications during the first week the Healthcare.gov website was online, according to two sources inside the Department of Health and Human Services who gave MailOnline an exclusive look at the earliest enrollment numbers. 
The career civil servants, who process data inside the agency, confirmed independently that just 6,200 Americans applied for health insurance through the problem-plagued website on October 1, the day it first opened to the public.
Do you know anyone who signed up for Obamacare?
Neither HHS nor the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would comment on the record about the numbers. Enroll America, on Obama administration-related organization that aims to help Americans sign up, only replied to a request for information a day after this article was first published. 
'I don’t have any hard numbers beyond what HHS and the state-based exchanges have released,' said spokesman Justin Nisly, who insisted that Americans have been 'enthusiastic' and 'grateful' for Obamacare.
Any of you sign up or know someone who did?
The White House did not respond to emails seeking comment. 
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Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, a Republican who chairs the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, said that 'if the numbers are accurate,' they show 'that relatively few people have navigated the challenges of the first step of the process – roughly the population of a small town in my district.'
He guys.....Never mind.
'The White House and HHS have continually claimed they did not have these figures,' Brady told MailOnline. 'If they do, they have misled the Congress and the American people.' 
The low numbers also reflect a level of technological frustration on the part of Americans whose attempts to investigate their new health insurance options have been met with crashes, error messages and interminable delays.
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4 comments:

RomneyMan said...

But ObamaCare's still going to happen though.

So be bitter all you like, don't change the fact that Obamacare is US law.

BOSMAN said...

It's no wonder Team Obama have been trying to hide the numbers on Obamacare. It's too bad one has to resort to British news agencies to do some investigating to get to the truth. These numbers are EMBARRASSING.

Over $650 Million for exchanges that no one cares to use to sign up for health plans that they don't want...and those that do are told to..TRY LATER...hahahaha...

RomneyMan said...

Whether it's a shambles for 1 month or 1 year, ObamaCare isn't going away- as much as you want it to.

Fact: For all of your life the US will now have ObamaCare or a derivative of it.

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