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In Arkansas, crucial Obamacare hub draws little notice
Reuters ^ | December 11, 2013 | Andy Sullivan

Posted on 12/12/2013 2:32:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

In an unmarked building on the outskirts of this old railroad town, hundreds of workers are going about the unglamorous work of expanding the United States' social safety net.

From morning until midnight, clerks here type up the names, Social Security numbers and other personal details of those who have filled out paper applications for health insurance under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.

From the outside, there's no indication that the workers in the three-story brick building are carrying out an increasingly crucial part of the healthcare overhaul known as Obamacare.

But as the Obama administration tries to recover from the disastrous debut of the website that is supposed to enroll millions of Americans in health coverage, its call for frustrated Americans to enroll the old-fashioned way - on paper - have made this building in Rogers, Arkansas, one of the most important cogs in the president's signature domestic achievement....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: arkansas; obamacare
"That 70's Show."
1 posted on 12/12/2013 2:32:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Punch cards or punch tape?


2 posted on 12/12/2013 2:35:13 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

good enough for government work


3 posted on 12/12/2013 2:40:29 PM PST by dontreadthis
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Do they also make “carbon” copies?


4 posted on 12/12/2013 2:43:21 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Cuneiform on clay tables.


5 posted on 12/12/2013 2:43:45 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Don Corleone

Nope. No can do. Can’t be adding to the carbon footprint.


6 posted on 12/12/2013 2:44:30 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
expanding the United States' social safety net

Facilitating the communist scheme of the dictator

7 posted on 12/12/2013 2:44:56 PM PST by Ray76
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems fitting the little socialists conduct their ‘business’ near a railway yard.


8 posted on 12/12/2013 2:54:45 PM PST by Track9 (hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gobs mo’ affirmative action jobs—yippee!!!!!! Obama voters navigating for Obama voters and getting paid!!! By the man!!!


9 posted on 12/12/2013 2:57:52 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Punch cards or punch tape?

The IBM 026 Card Punch, millions were is service in the 60s, 70s and some in the 80s.

Initially replaced by the MDS {Mohawk Data Sciences Data Recorder}

The data recorder was a key to tape device, sounds ancient today but was way ahead of the curve in the 60s.


11 posted on 12/12/2013 3:45:49 PM PST by USS Alaska (If I could...I would.)
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To: USS Alaska

They are all probably stoned Acorn rejects.


12 posted on 12/12/2013 4:02:51 PM PST by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

***Rogers, Arkansas, ***

WHAT! That’s only 25 miles from here! North 13th Street and West Roselawn Drive, Rogers, Ar.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/oct/22/serco-hiring-1100-more-rogers-process-cen-20131022/


13 posted on 12/12/2013 4:08:47 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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