Administration Says ObamaCare Site Is Working; CNN Finds Otherwise

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Elise Viebeck at The Hill reports:

The Obama administration claimed victory Sunday for making HealthCare.gov workable for the vast majority of users, a standard that will be tested as millions of people flood the site in the next three weeks.

Uh, do you really think “millions of people” will “flood the site”?

Or is that just what the administration is claiming? You might want to double-check, because claims by the Obama administration have a predictable way of turning out to be false:

ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: So tell me about what happened, because we’re getting another error message here, and it’s supposed to be running smoothly. . . .
MATT SLOANE, CNN MEDICAL PRODUCER: I got through. I picked my state. I put in all of my information and I got through the whole process in eight minutes. And then it said my status was in progress. So I went to refresh it and I got the error message.

The Lonely Conservative:

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters wonders how many other news outlets didn’t bother to test the site and simply took the administration’s word that it’s now working just fine.

Honesty has never been a requirement for employment with the Obama administration — or with most of the media, either.

 

58 comments

  1. I’m not sure if we’re seeing Sadaam’s information minister, or Kevin Bacon in “Animal House” from the administration at this point. Either way, they’re lying and we’re screwed.

  2. I wonder what they mean by “millions?” Given 3 weeks, 7 days per week, 24 hours per day, 2 hours per person to sign up, and a stated web site maximum capacity of 50k people, assuming 100% uptime and perfect queuing, they could serve a maximum of 12.6 million people.

    As they’ve kicked ~5 million off their insurance and the whole point was to add the uninsured for one reason or another (which is ~20-25% of the population, 75m people) which I’m sure, in their fondest imaginings join 100%, they’re pretty much doomed, aren’t they? actually, given that in the real world, people have to wake up, work, etc, I bet a more realistic number of serviceable people is closer to the 5 million they pushed off service.. though if we assume that they’ll take the web site down, it’ll crash, and at times of overcapacity (when most people would be attempting to get though the website) weird things will happen from time to time, not to mention people who suffer sticker shock and simply leave, if in their fondest imaginings they manage to sell 2 million policies though the web site (not including the people going onto medicaid/care) they’ll be more successful than I’d expect.

  5. Oh come on, who are you going to believe, the Obama admin or the media?
    Oh, shit… that’s the way Captain Kirk got computers to explode, asking questions like that.

  6. Obama will say anything do anything to get out of a tight fix. Wonder how the basketball game he was playing today went? I just hope the people losing insurance by the end of this month will be able to get some in time.

  8. Build it and they will come only counts for things that people really want. Giving their healthcare over to big bugged gubermint doesn’t fit that reality.

    Working or not, there’s going to be millions of healthy folks of all ages that opt out of O-Care.

    This mass ‘vote’ against O-Care is perhaps likely closely followed by many doctors and clinics going free-market while opting out of the low payments that O-Care promises to provide in favor of some ‘concierge’ model to get them thru the O-Mess that’s likely to result when O-Care collapses.

    It’s curious how gubermint makes a big deal about how teacher’s MUST get paid the same whether they are teaching wealthy or poor kids but doctors and nurses and clinics treating low income folks — not so much. They typically get 50% or less, sometimes much less, than their regular fees for Medicaid and Medicare, with O-Care payments probably not all that much different.

    Ask teachers to teach classrooms stuff with low income kids, or unions to build schools and roads in low income areas for half price and what do you get — lots of folks on strike with PRESSSSident and OCrat politicians lining up to help them get more. Do the same half payments (or less) to Doctors and Nurses and Clinics working with low income folks and what do you get from the PRESSSSSident and Ocrats? Answer — … … …. Deafening silence…

    This is going to work out just great…. Pass the popcorn — and don’t get sick…

  10. I think CNN has seen people flocking away from viewing them and they know cheerleading for Obama is a lost cause. They know Obama is a liar and anyone linked to him is a liar. You could easily link CNN with senators up for re-election that voted for Democare.

  12. Zer0care is Obamao’s “Great Leap Forward.” It will just as much success. The only question at this point is the price to be paid by the idiots that pushed the mess on us. I’m all for a short frog march to the nearest lamp post with them.

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