Posted on 04/01/2014 1:52:28 PM PDT by lowbridge
A triumphant White House press secretary Jay Carney stopped short of saying 'I told you so' on tuesday, but chided a sparse press corps in the briefing room at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for ever doubting that the Obamacare system would enroll 7 million Americans.
'At midnight last night we surpassed everyone's expectations,' he boasted, 'at least everyone in this room.'
Carney announced an enrollment total of 7,041,000, not including stragglers who waited until march 31 to sign up on some state-based enrollment websites.
But while he took great pains to enphasize that the number would grow – saying 'we're still waiting on data from state exchanges' – he dodged tough questions about other statistics that reporters thought he should have had at the ready.
Those numbers included how many Americans have paid for their insurance policies, and are actually insured. Also, he had no answer to the thorny question of how few signups represented people who had no insurance before the Affordable Care Act took effect.
Numbers from one study, a RAND Corporation effort that has been kept under wraps, suggests that barely 858,000 previously uninsured Americans – nowhere near 7 million – paid for new policies and joined the ranks of the insured by Monday night.
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CORRECT title: White House LIES 7 MILLION Obamacare Enrollments, but secretive study shows just 858,000 newly insured Americans have paid up! ...............
I would have thought that the people who are keeping the study under wraps are “secretive.”
I’ll bet you that most of those 800,000 are not the ones they wanted to offset the costs either. I’ll bet most of those have some existing condition like a recent pregnancy or something as well.
The liberal base would believe them if they said Elvis had called Obama to talk about the importance of government run health care. The things Pelosi, Reid and Obama say are only directed to their base.
Obama = April’s fool. And Jan, Feb, Mar...Oct, Nov, Dec.
What a miserable failure!
Well, don’t some of the ObamaDrones think men have walked on Mars?
The White House is full of expert liars.
Leni
Well, it’s not like the obama administration would lie, is it?
and how many “Paid/Professional Applauders” in the audience today?
The lies never stop. I wish I could say it’s just Zero and the 0bamunists, but the pubbies do their fair share of BS’ing the people, as well.
11-12% success rate for this piece of crap is probably being generous. Even the dhimmicrap voters didn’t bite on it.
Why is the U.K. MSM have to be who really tells us what’s going on here in the U.S.(rhetorical question)?
The problem is the MSM who either underreports or doesn't report at all on major stories. IRS, F&F, Obama's background, abortion mandate all are just a few days' story then buried in the ash heap.
The media are the real criminals.
It sounds like this was an election event. Robo-calls to minorities, SEIU and other union involvement. I wonder if they got the churches involved?
> CORRECT title: White House LIES 7 MILLION Obamacare Enrollments, but secretive study shows just 858,000 newly insured Americans have paid up! ...............
And probably came from your tax dollars in one form or another to do it.
I would describe it as a CATASTROPHIC FAILURE.
A catastrophe of Biblical proportions considering what the productive sector of society is being taxed to pay for this monstrous failure of social engineering.
Yes, the black Presbyterian church in my town has been involved with getting people to apply and training navigators. I sat next to the wife of the minister at a meeting recently and she was gushing about all they were doing to support the “President’s Affordable Care Act”.
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