[TruthShallSetYouFree]

the problems have been largely confined to the 34 state marketplaces that the federal government runs.

Yeah, confined to only 68% of the states. (Or did I make a math error? What's 34 divided by 57?) And that's all of the ones the feds are running.

The word confined is normally used to denote a small population of a much larger population, as in: "The meningitis outbreak was confined to only 6 people out of the 7 million living in New York." One would not say: "The deaths due to the bubonic plague were confined to 75 million of the 100 million people in western Europe."

[Rennes Templar]

Like saying MSM reporter's sycophantism is confined to their brains.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Yeah, confined to only 68% of the states."

The same verbal abuse was used in a story in The Seattle Times, touting how wonderful the program is working. It said that so fare "more than 4,500" have signed up for individual insurance. It should have said "ONLY 4,500" because the 4,500 is only about 1% of the state's projected enrollee figure. The vast majority of the enrollees - 31, 000 - have signed up for Medicaid, and at least two-thirds of them will be totally subsidized.