Posted on 10/02/2013 3:49:02 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
As President Obama's signature health insurance overhaul effort began to enroll new participants on Monday, some states running their own insurance exchanges saw huge levels of website traffic but paltry interest in signing up.
California, the ultimate blue state whose federal lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in support of Obamacare, turned less than 1 per cent of its Web visits into 'Covered California' participants on Tuesday.
'We had over 5.7 million hits to our website as of 3 p.m. yesterday,' Covered California spokeswoman Kelsey Caldwell told MailOnline Wednsday.
'7,700 consumers began their application process yesterday. ... 4,143 applications are pending,' she added. 'We received 23,269 calls yesterday to our service center.'
Caldwell couldn't say how many of the 5.7 million website hits were from unique Californians. But assuming 712,500 online visitors saw eight different Web pages each, the sign-up rate was 0.58 per cent.
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HAHAHAHAHA!
No wonder the sites were overloaded. What a bunch of crap this administration is.
Figures. A UK newspaper reports this. Where’s the US “news” media? I guess they can’t report on this as it does not look good for their selected boy-king wannabe.
So they were overloaded with hardly anybody signing up. Oh, please let this end disastrously. Without this, Obama has nothing to hang his Kenyan headdress on.
I’m not as certain as you are.
The websites appear to be plagued with problems.
The true story/body counts will not be know for several months.
I heard Rove on Greta last night and he said some of the rates quoted to people are wrong. I bet a lot of people logging on are shocked at the premiums and many thought it was free or close to free. You are right though. It will take some time to see what happens.
Boehner just walked out of the meeting with Obama saying there was no progress. That meeting was only for Obama to look like he is trying to negotiate and get a photo op.
I agree with you. That is so apparent to me
Sure he does.
The worst economy since FDR.
The signups will SKYROCKET to THREE % with 6 months, then level off to numbers too small to count,for months afterward, then reach a phenomenal total of 250,000 at around the 9 month period, with a predictable 2% of those being under 35 years of age. If these top-of-my-head figures, going forward, are even close to what actually happens, the promoters of ACA are going to have to do some very creative fancy footwork to explain the limp appeal, and/or create a lot of phony accounts along the way, to bump up those numbers. We will hear stories of people being PAID to sign up, as an incentive-—new “Navigators” , as it were.
I don’t put anything past them.Somehow, whatever happens will have to be described as a success.
Just wait, its coming.
This is starting to seem less like the next Medicare and more like the next Yugo.
Did Obama tell us that the average policy holder would see savings of $3000 a year?
So if you go on-line and see a policy that is going to cost you more than you are paying now; I think you are going to be a bit disappointed and leave the site with out signing up.
Yep. When the employers dump their employees into the exchanges when the employer mandate takes affect in a yr. that is when the spike will happen.
If zero people want to sign up and they want to call it a success because there are no subsidy freebies that’ll be adding to the debt, I’ll accept that.
I just wonder what’s going to happen when it’s time for people to file their taxes in Spring 2015 and they have to pay the penalty for the first time. Many of those people will be low-info voters who still basically have no clue what Obamacare is. I think the IRS will have to hunt down a lot of people who just don’t pay it. No normal working person saves up money to pay taxes at the end of the year. If they’re getting a deduction, then they might be surprised how much lower it is. That’ll be long after the mid-terms are over though, so it’ll be of no political benefit to Republicans.
Yeah they do. McDonald’s and other spots have wifi.
Turns out those "evil" insurance companies refuse to give out free health insurance. All they want to do is line their fatcat CEO's pockets with windfall profits!
The premiums aren’t a shock until you look at the deductibles that go with them—together they are truly appalling.
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