Through most of October and November, the Obama administration refused to tell us how many people were signing up on the Obamacare exchanges. The American people and even Congress was told that we all had to wait until three weeks after the end of the month before the Obamacrats could give us those figures. Thus, we waited until nearly Thanksgiving to learn that only 26,000 people selected a health plan on the federal exchange in October. We are still waiting for the November figures which won't come until some time after December 15th.
So why is this another lie? Here's the reason: in order to show that the site is now working better, the White House told the media that 29,000 people selected plans on the federal site on Sunday and Monday. That means that the numbers who sign up are available on a daily basis. While that is no surprise, it confirms that the White House was lying earlier when it told us all that we had to wait for that information.
One more point: the Obamacrats are thrilled that they hit almost 15,000 per day selecting plans. While this is an improvement from the almost non-existent numbers of October and (I presume) November, it is still way short of what they need. The White House had said that it needed seven million people to get new insurance between October 1 and March 31 for the system to work. When you add in the five million people whose insurance has been cancelled in the private market due to Obamacare, there are twelve million people who have to get coverage during that 180 day period. That means that the system has to produce 66,666 people signing up each day just to meet the goal. Of course, we have already lost the first 60 of those days, so the system actually has to hit one hundred thousand people per day buying insurance just to hit the numbers. The new figures about which the White House is so excited are only 15% of what is needed. Even worse, the figures from the White House includes people who look at plans and select one but then do not sign up. The number actually buying the insurance is significantly lower. Then there is the issue whether or not the people who buy the insurance are having the correct information sent by the site to the insurance companies. We have been told that about one-third have major errors in their data. What all that means is that most likely the system is now producing about 5% of what it needs to hit just to meet the goals. Each day the numbers get worse and the system falls further behind. It really is a mess.
So why is this another lie? Here's the reason: in order to show that the site is now working better, the White House told the media that 29,000 people selected plans on the federal site on Sunday and Monday. That means that the numbers who sign up are available on a daily basis. While that is no surprise, it confirms that the White House was lying earlier when it told us all that we had to wait for that information.
One more point: the Obamacrats are thrilled that they hit almost 15,000 per day selecting plans. While this is an improvement from the almost non-existent numbers of October and (I presume) November, it is still way short of what they need. The White House had said that it needed seven million people to get new insurance between October 1 and March 31 for the system to work. When you add in the five million people whose insurance has been cancelled in the private market due to Obamacare, there are twelve million people who have to get coverage during that 180 day period. That means that the system has to produce 66,666 people signing up each day just to meet the goal. Of course, we have already lost the first 60 of those days, so the system actually has to hit one hundred thousand people per day buying insurance just to hit the numbers. The new figures about which the White House is so excited are only 15% of what is needed. Even worse, the figures from the White House includes people who look at plans and select one but then do not sign up. The number actually buying the insurance is significantly lower. Then there is the issue whether or not the people who buy the insurance are having the correct information sent by the site to the insurance companies. We have been told that about one-third have major errors in their data. What all that means is that most likely the system is now producing about 5% of what it needs to hit just to meet the goals. Each day the numbers get worse and the system falls further behind. It really is a mess.
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