BREAKING: HHS Releases New Obamacare Enrollment Numbers

Townhall.com ^ | March 11, 2014 | Daniel Doherty

[Kaslin]

Only idiots would even click on the site to sign up. I don’t think any of us is that stupid

[paint_your_wagon]

I haven’t signed up yet. But I was planning to just as soon as I’ve finished my cup of hot cocoa and changed out of my pajamas. Could take me a while.

[nascarnation]

Only idiots would even click on the site to sign up

There is a subset of folks who are paying substantially less than $100/mo for coverage due to massive tax and debt funded subsidies. They are actually behaving rationally.

[Spartan302]

How many are serving 5-10 years in prison?

[Mr. K]

So, around 1% of the country.

[FoxInSocks]

Given 4.2 million "enrollees", what # of the remaining 1.8 million (to get to the projected 6 million total) need to be in the 18-34 bracket to increase it's portion from 26% to 35%?

About 1 million, or 56 percent, of the remaining 1.8 million.

[edcoil]

I thought this was for 30 million uninsured. 4 is nothing.

[okie01]

If someone were to apply/enroll, then (for whatever reason) want more time to think about it, could that person dis-apply/enroll?

As I understand it, no.

Once enrolled, the system's software does not allow any way to unenroll.

Indeed, if you have opted for an automatic draw on your bank account, it will continue to draw on your account ad infinitum. Or, at least, until somebody in Washington figures out how to make it stop.

And, of course, you've got to know the guy in Washington who figures this out...

[MUDDOG]

That's my understanding, too.

It's easier to quit the mob.

[Lawgvr1955]

Obama’s appearance on Funny or Die needs help that Obamacare can’t give!!

[Gene Eric]

How many are now without insurance? The regime doesn’t give a crap. It only hopes to show at least a marginal increase in coverage regardless of the responsible individuals no longer insured.

The entire process has been a lie, and the Democrats shoved it down the throats of the American people knowing it was and still is a lie.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Something to that affect, yes.

The Federalist website had a great piece this week - "Was Obamacare Worth It?" - or something like that. Essentially, it used the actual enrollment numbers to muse if all this sturm undt drang was worth it in order to make unaffordable health insurance coverage available to the relative few who were shut out before the ADA, and poses that if the current numbers bear out, it most certainly is not helping those it was intended to help. So no.

[Amagi]

A private sector business could not survive long with this Obama administration's proven record of egregious lying to its patrons.

[lepton]

Do you have the link? I wasn’t able to find that title.