Posted on 04/01/2014 12:06:08 PM PDT by lowbridge
Deaf Californians looking to sign up for health insurance coverage through the state’s Obamacare exchange were directed Monday to a hotline offering to connect them with “hot ladies.”
As some Californians learned on the final day of open enrollment, one of the phone numbers provided by Covered California, the state’s online exchange, was 1-888-899-4500, one digit off from the real number, 1-888-889-4500.
So instead of being connected to an Obamacare representative, some hearing-impaired Californians were instead sent to an “adult entertainment” phone service.
“Welcome to America’s hottest talk line. Ladies, to talk to interesting and exciting guys free, press one now. Guys, hot ladies are waiting to talk to you. Press two to connect free now,” deaf Californians were told when they called the incorrect number, KMAX-TV reported.
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No wonder people report spending hours and hours trying to sign up for Obamacare...
You know what will happen, the GOP et al have focused so much on the rollout being a disaster instead of that the plan ITSELF is bad, regardless of the rollout, now the media gets to proclaim the problems are fixed and what are the GOP going to complain about now etc.
This is how the game is played. CNN MSNBC and yes even Fox focusing on the rollout now will give cover later.
Yahoo already has a “guide to GOP excuse making” now that Obamacare is “working”.
ROFL ROFL Should they be put on hold a music comes on by Marvin Gaye “Sexual HEALING” LOL
News Corp execs endorsed John Kerry in 2004.
Something similar happened to me. I was at work, trying to contact a supplier. Only phone number I could find on their website was 1-800 and the company name, which was longer than a phone number. So, I’m spelling the company name and punching buttons on the phone. After 7 button punches, phone connects, and I hear, “welcome to ____, the hottest phone sex chat line.” Believe me, I could not hang up fast enough. One of my (clueless) coworkers wanted to know if I tried to call back. Um, NO!!
I can hardly wait for Obamacare to be scrapped.
What will be interesting is all the people who will be suing to get their Obamafines back.
Yes its all just kabuki theater.
So I tried them again on Wednesday. Twice on Thursday, and probably a half dozen times over the weekend.
Still not signed up for Obamacare, though.
One of my old naval cohorts and wife years and years ago moved to a new home when he was transferred in. After a week or so, his wife was at her wits end. The phone rang constantly and it was always a different guy asking for a different woman. Exasperated, they contacted the phone company. The phone number belonged to a defunct Angel’s escort service.
But if a deaf masseuse wanted to braille her way over my body...
If they were deaf, how did they know it was a sex chat line?
I did the same thing years ago where I worked. The IT dept. disconnected my telephone later that night, after work, and I had to call them next day and explain why I’d called that number. I was a 50 year old grandmother by then so it didn’t take long. I can’t imagine what a guy would have had to say to get their phone reconnected.
They just got the name of the service confused -- California Uncovered
That was me, don’t really fit the stereotypical person to call that type of number. They didn’t disconnect my phone, but I went and grabbed our IT manager and self-disclosed. Thought he was going to pass out, he laughed so hard.
I’d reported to my boss, but she didn’t know she had to call IT. Just one of those things you get to laugh about after you retire.
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