…there’s a problem with the signup totals that the administration was pushing. They’re a tad* off:
The inspector general said the federal insurance exchange reported a total of 2.9 million so-called “inconsistencies” with consumer data from October through December 2013.
Officials had the technical capability to resolve roughly 330,000 of those cases, but only about 10,000 cases were actually closed during the period covered by the report.
So… almost 3 million problem accounts. The government thinks that they can fix about 11% of them; they’ve actually fixed .3% (note the decimal). And note that this is from roughly half of the sign-up period. It’s the first half, which leads one to hope** that there were less problems with the second wave of signups. Anyone planning to place a bet with their bookie on that?
Anyone?
Moe Lane
**Well, one must be civilized about such things. I’m sure that any number of people who fought Obamacare tooth and nail also lost their coverage, and thus have no karmic guilt to complicate our sympathy for their inability to navigate Obamacare. For that matter: there are plenty of virtuous, upstanding citizens out there who happen to vote for Democrats. The people that we’re all really mad at are the people who lie to the aforementioned upstanding citizens.
A “tad” is almost exactly the same as a “smidgeon”.
“The people that we’re all really mad at are the people who lie to the aforementioned upstanding citizens.”
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Being a citizen in a free democratic republic isn’t a basic human right. It isn’t a status that you just receive, for free, with no costs, obligations, or responsibilities.
When a majority of the populace thinks that it IS a free gift, handed to them as their right, it all breaks down.
Those aforementioned upstanding citizens who voted for BO had a responsibility to do more than merely show up and vote for the prettiest candidate. They all – each and every one – were supposed to look into those people angling to win the election. They were supposed to have some basic familiarity with what those people were promising, and what they had actually accomplished in the past.
BO won his first presidential election, and his second, because tens of millions of people were too busy voting people off islands and watching amateur singers in contests and just generally jacking off to spend any time – ANY time – fulfilling their duties as free citizens. The information was right there for the learning.
So excuse me if I fail to properly respect those “virtuous, upstanding citizens” who – twice! – voted for BO.
Unexpected!
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j/k
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Mew