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"Some Folks Lied" - How The Administration Fabricated Obamacare Enrollment Numbers
Zero Hedge ^ | 11/20/14 | tyler durden

Posted on 11/20/2014 12:40:46 PM PST by Nachum

Two months ago, to much fanfare by the progressive community, HHS, if not Dr. Jonathan Gruber, were delighted to report that as of August 15, Obamacare enrolment had hit 7.3 million sign ups, well above the 7.0 million goal.

Then a week ago we learned that "projection mistakes were made" after the "Obama administration revised its estimate for Obamacare enrollment, now saying - with the bruising midterms safely in the rearview mirror - that it expects some 9.9 million people to have coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges in 2015, millions fewer than outside experts predicted."

The administration said Monday that around 7.1 million people across the country who picked plans during the current year’s open-enrollment period were still paid up for their coverage. That’s down from the eight million who the administration said had picked plans as of this spring.

Fast forward to today when moments ago Bloomberg reported, that "the Obama administration included as many as 400,000 dental plans in a number it reported for enrollments under the Affordable Care Act, an unpublicized detail that helped surpass a goal for 7 million sign-ups."

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: gruber; obamacare
Grubering the numbers
1 posted on 11/20/2014 12:40:46 PM PST by Nachum
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2 posted on 11/20/2014 12:41:10 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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3 posted on 11/20/2014 12:47:15 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Nachum

Here’s some more on the current enrollment clusterfark that nobody seems to be reporting on ... further grubering of the numbers is the result:

http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2014/11/how-many-people-have-enrolled-so-far-in.html


4 posted on 11/20/2014 12:54:34 PM PST by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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To: Nachum

For those of us who lived thru the cold war and remember Pravda reporting that the latest Soviet five year plan had hit their grain targets, these reports are becoming ominously familiar.


5 posted on 11/20/2014 12:57:02 PM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Nachum
Oh, gee, look, once again, everyone except 0bama lied! How about that, who would have thought?
My takeaway from this says they really DO believe we're stupid! They've played that Lie Card™ so many times it's become a catchphrase, like comedians re-use for easy laughs.
It's almost like the people giving him his orders WANT him to look like an idiot. Well, mission accomplished!
6 posted on 11/20/2014 1:09:46 PM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not--I don't care--because we won!)
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To: Nachum
It would seem to me enrollment numbers would trend downwards after open open enrollment closed in the spring. You would have people dropping off the exchanges if they found work with group health coverage. There would also be people that decide to quite paying for various financial reasons. I've read 40 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, so that probably applies to people that get insurance through exchanges.

Who is going to signup this time around? The people with the highest incentive to signup have already done so. There is another round of insurance cancellations in the private market and from small businesses terminating coverage. People with incomes under 400% of FPL would certainly take a look at the exchanges for a subsidy, especially if they have an unaffordable chronic condition.

7 posted on 11/20/2014 2:30:34 PM PST by EVO X
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To: Nachum

This whole Marxist administration has lied from before they were elected/appointed and have no plans to stop it.

Why not?

They have fooled enough Americans to obtain an “electoral coup” without having to ever tell the truth so when you’re on a “roll”, you just keep on “rollin’”.


8 posted on 11/20/2014 3:14:04 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Nachum

Thanks for the ping.


9 posted on 11/20/2014 8:46:13 PM PST by GOPJ ('Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State' Vladimir Lenin1945 pamphlet)
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To: Nachum

Thought for the day: since all this ‘untruth-telling’ is not reported in the MSM and ‘Lefties Weekly’, the Lefties don’t suspect that such a thing is possible. The GOP will have an easy time when they form a Regime. Kinda gives them a free hand. Right? Grin.


10 posted on 11/20/2014 10:03:55 PM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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Just a few months ago or so on “The Hill” website I was in a debate with a flaming liberal over this very thing. He kept on calling obamacare a raging success and pointed to the enrollment numbers as proof. I warned him that the administration has a record of cooking the books (census, unemployment, illegal alien deportation, etc) and the enrollment numbers of obamacare was no different.

We kept on going back and forth, him citing the enrollment numbers as proof of the success and popularity of obamacare and me warning him that he is being lied to by the administration because the enrollment numbers are fake.

I also added that sooner or later that the truth will come out and as a result he will come to realize that he has been made a fool of due to him believing obamas enrollment number lies and repeating them as if they were gospel.

He just wouldnt listen to me so I just walked away from our debate, seeing how hopeless it was trying to talk some sense into him.

Well...

WHO IS RIGHT NOW YOU EFFING MORON???????


11 posted on 11/21/2014 7:33:31 PM PST by lowbridge
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