Posted on 10/19/2013 2:05:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
The White House is apparently so desperate to pump anything positive about the disaster known as HealthCare.gov that it took a reporter's ability to "set up an account" as proof that the web site is working fine for some users.
Uh, no. Early Thursday afternoon, Ryan Lizza, the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker (also the guy who may have been in the best position to prove that Barack Obama was lying when he said in 2008 that he never read the church bulletins at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ, and passed), tweeted the following: "I just tested http://healthcare.gov for the first time and I was able to set up an account with no trouble." Well, setting up an account is a step, but is hardly the end of a HealthCare.gov user's journey. As seen at Twitchy, that didn't stop White House press secretary Jay Carney and senior communications adviser Tara McGuinness from retweeting Lizza's tweet — except Lizza wasn't done, and got stopped dead in his tracks when he tried to move on:
Oops.
Late Friday night, Lizza was still sucking wind on progressing further:
Carney's retweet was still present (second item at link) when Twitchy created its post this morning. I guess there's no interest in the truth getting in the way of a good story.
The establishment press would be hounding a press secretary who allowed erroneous tweets to hang around uncorrected for so long in a Republican or conservative administration, and would likely be covering it as a story, which isn't happening now.
Lizza did note a silver lining for the web site's secondary mission: "The link to register to vote does work, though."
How many of these people who get burned by trying to “enroll” in Obamacare through the website are ever going to try again?
We may yet be spared the indignities of Obamacare through the sheer inadequacies of the untrained and under-qualified staff, the “navigators”, sent out to collect the information.
If they have anyone left in charge with any degree of leadership qualities, they would be getting together a way to do the enrollment by physical paperwork. Cumbersome, perhaps, but it always worked in the past. And the paper trail provides recourse when error crops up.
Nobody ever hacked a manual typewriter or ball-point pen.
Set up an account - to pay the Husseincare tax. Holy cow.
And many of those so-called “Navigators” can’t even be trusted
Set up account — check
Identity verified — check
Can’t view eligibility results or enroll — sucks to be you
I now have all of your personal information to do with as I choose — and you still do not have “healthcare” — sucka
Signed,
King Obama
I'm sure there is only one party affiliation available to select. That's not a bug, it's a feature - it reduces end-user confusion. :)
Exactly. They really must hold us for fools
Any pool going on the date they call a do-over?
Seems like it is just a data-mining tool for the government to get all your personal information.
The tech isn’t the problem.
It’s the costs.
They granted so many swaths of exemptions that the few that those that sign up have to cover a greater of the The Fourteenth Amendment violations.
This was not done with Social Security.
They likely wouldn't want to but after submitting their names into the health.gov data base they will have self-identified as uninsured and will be the first to be hounded until they prove they are compliant.
sounds more like a 2-bit phishing operation.
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