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Politico Buries Crucial Caveats in Happy Talk Obamacare 'Surge' Story
NewsBusters ^ | December 4, 2013 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 12/04/2013 12:26:35 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Happy talk, keep talking happy talk,
Talk about things you'd like to do,
You gotta have a dream, if you don't have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?
  ---"Happy Talk" from "South Pacific."

Carrie Budoff Brown was bubbling over with joy about a supposed Obamacare "surge" in her Politico article. Yes, supposedly massive new Obamacare numbers were suddenly showing up in the past few days. But what did they really mean? Fortunately for those praying for Obamacare success, Brown did not burst that joy bubble until well into the article with crucial caveats to the "surge" numbers. First let us look at the Happy Talk Brown presents at the beginning of the article before we delve into the buried inconvenient truths:

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: obamacare; politico; sarahkliff; washingtonpost
Of the 29,000 "enrollees," approximately ZERO actually paid the first month's premium. How do I know? Because there is NO payment system even set up yet on the Obamacare site.

And how many will have their IDs stolen?

1 posted on 12/04/2013 12:26:35 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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And how many will have their IDs stolen?

Zero. None of them have anything worth stealing. The 29,000 that allegedly signed up are irresponsible, lazy, parasitic Demonic Party voting scum signing up for the "free stuff" provided by the "Obama stash". Combined they probably have an average credit score of -13.

2 posted on 12/04/2013 12:33:19 PM PST by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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29,000 enrollees.

How many were for Medicaid?

Always be suspicious when that number is not reported.

3 posted on 12/04/2013 12:35:17 PM PST by zeestephen
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How many were for Medicaid?

28,999. The other guy was some poor sap trying to impress his liberal girlfriend.

4 posted on 12/04/2013 12:37:04 PM PST by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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some poor sap trying to impress his liberal girlfriend.

..She's not impressed.

5 posted on 12/04/2013 12:49:07 PM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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My eyes...............................


6 posted on 12/04/2013 1:02:57 PM PST by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: PJ-Comix

From the article:

“What do you do, Sarah? Type “Obamacare” into Google Search and hit the refresh button every few seconds while praying that any tiny bit of supposed good news about that program flop shows up?”


7 posted on 12/04/2013 1:04:32 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: PJ-Comix

Good job, Peej. Love seeing you published. :)


8 posted on 12/04/2013 1:05:56 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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