As the Obama-loving media echo White House talking points that opening day "glitches" at online healthcare exchanges crashed Tuesday due to a flood of interested Americans clamoring for insurance, they might consider what happened in Connecticut.
According to Congressman Jim Himes (D-Conn.), out of the 28,000 visitors to his state's exchange Tuesday, only 167 actually signed up:
For those that can do math, that means 0.6 percent of visitors actually applied for insurance.
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One of the companies on the exchange in another state has had 8 people sign up as of this afternoon. They had expected more than 10 times that number.
Hope the ones who didn't enroll are ready for their fine to be drawn from a bank account or paycheck
According to the UK's Daily Mail--
California's program registered an estimated 0.58 per cent of website visitors in its first day.
A Connecticut congressman boasted that his state took 167 applications for Obamacare services on day one, a rate of 0.59 per cent.
Obama administration won't say how many Americans signed up on the central website that covered insurance exchanges for 36 states.
Kentucky's 5.3 per cent application rate seems to be the nation's highest. (That might mean one out of a total of 19. -- Ed.)
Other states wouldn't provide statistics, or tracked only the creation of new online accounts, not numbers of completed applications
A KUSI News video carried at Weasel Zippers reports that California's exchange "has not sold even one insurance policy," and that "only about 500,000 people visited the Covered California web site on its first day of operation, not the 5 million originally reported by website officials" (A Hot Air post by Mary Katharine Ham says that the first-day number is really 645,000). The report also notes 30-minute hold times for telephone help.
In an item linked at Hot Air Headlines, the New York Times reports that at "the (New York) exchange’s Web site, but that 12,000 had filled out forms or browsed through their options."
A Tuesday evening report by Williams and Alonso-Zaldivar themselves quoted one user as saying that "It was worse today than it was yesterday" at the Iowa exchange.
In the Bayou State, "Louisiana’s leading health insurance company reports that not one person has yet successfully enrolled in a new health care plan offered through the Affordable Care Act
"At Reason ("Are Obamacare’s Federal Exchanges Practically Empty?"; link is in the original): The head of a “navigator” program intended to assist people with enrolling in Wisconsin’s federal exchange, for example, told The New York Times today that to his knowledge, not one of the people his organization tried to sign up made it through the system."
"Anecdotal evidence I've heard gives me the impression that even died-in-the-wool Obama fans are shaking their heads, not only at the processing problems, but at the results obtained. They're seeing the costs and saying, "I'm going without.""
4:54-fine is deducted from tax refund. If that fails suspension of drivers license.
One thing to keep in mind with the above comments. Filing out an application and/or registering are not enrollment.
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