Will Obamacare get its act together in time?

[regexcellent]

The right to own guns is law, stop being butthurt over it.

[Ben Kenobi]

He lives in Chicago. I'd be butthurt too if I lived in the murder capital of the US.

[SlowwHand]

With no way to protect yourself, without being a criminal.

[Ben Kenobi]

I know! Imagine if there was a law or something that allowed you to actually own and possess a firearm, and carry it around with you for personal safety. I wonder what you would call such a law.

[dannubis]

With no way to protect yourself, without being a criminal.

Poor sloww... So afraid of everything.

[Guynemer]

Still a better rollout than SimCity.

[Hauldren Collider]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hhs-run-website-hacked-now-selling-nfl-jerseys-ugg-boots-armani-fragrances_759213.html

[The Mad Monk]

Still a better rollout than SimCity.

Not yet it's not. People were actually buying the game.

[DinoDoc]

Not yet it's not. People were actually buying the game.

[regexcellent]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...es_759213.html

An improvement over the original.

[Sava]

So is this the new delusion? ... that nobody is signing up for it?

You guys are absolutely retarded. There is no hope for you whatsoever.

[The Mad Monk]

If so, we're in good company.

Washington Post:

The White House says people have bought Obamacare. We haven’t met them quite yet.

By Sarah Kliff, Published: October 3 at 10:41 amE-mail the writer


unicorn

If you have purchased health coverage on the federal government's new Obamacare marketplace, about a dozen or so reporters would like to speak with you. We promise we won't take up too much of your time!

We just need to find you first.

The federal government has said that somewhere out in this vast country of 313 million people, where 48 million lack insurance coverage, someone has managed to sign up for health insurance on the federally-run marketplaces. As of yet, we haven't tracked this person - or these people - down.

This is not for lack of effort. Reporters here at The Washington Post and at other publications have been on the hunt for this mythical creature.

Jenny Gold @JennyAGold

Has anyone out there successfully enrolled in insurance coverage through a #obamacare exchange? Let me know!
2:38 PM - 2 Oct 2013


Tara McGuinness ✔ @HealthCareTara

.@philgalewitz people are getting through the syste and enrolling..

Phil Galewitz @philgalewitz

@HealthCareTara be great if you yhad 1 person who actually did it who i could speak with?
11:39 AM - 2 Oct 2013


Sarah Kliff @sarahkliff

Has anyone out there bought health insurance on the Obamacare marketplace? I would like to talk to you! Email Sarah.Kliff@washpost.com
2:57 PM - 2 Oct 2013


Jay Hancock @jayhancock1

To the guy who actually bought Obamacare policy on Fed site. @sarahkliff @JennyAGold @charlesornstein + 28 other journos want to talk to you
3:21 PM - 2 Oct 2013

There are certainly lots of people trying to buy health insurance on the marketplace, that much is clear from my inbox. "I am trying to sign my wife up for an individual policy on Healthcare.gov and it's still basically impossible," one reader in Florida wrote to me Thursday morning. "I tried to create the account again and was told my username already existed for another account. I then closed the web browser and started looking around for a drink (if it weren't 8:30 a.m...)."

"I decided to do it Oct. 1 and hopefully will in the near future," someone else responded to my tweet. "Web sites were jammed on the first."

"I know you're looking for success stories, but in case it's helpful to your article, I've been trying for the past two days just to create an account, and can't do it," another reader said.

But there are people who have successfully purchased plans on the 16 state-run marketplaces, including someone I spoke with on Tuesday who estimates his plan saved him $6,000. These are the states in dark blue on this map.

exchange map

Some Minnesotans also tell me they've been able to purchase coverage, and actual enrollment numbers are coming out of Rhode Island, Connecticut and especially Kentucky.

But the federal marketplace is a bit of a black box right now. There's been heavy traffic, with over 4.7 million visitors since the exchanges opened for enrollment on Tuesday. The White House says some applicants have signed up, but didn't say how many. Rumors in the insurance industry hover in the single digits; several health plans say they are unaware of anyone signing up for their plan. BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina says it has enrolled one person.

The successful shoppers remain elusive. We're told they do exist and are indeed real people. If you happen to be this very special health policy unicorn of sorts, you can e-mail me here. You would make a whole lot of health wonks quite excited.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/03/the-white-house-says-people-have-bought-obamacare-we-havent-met-them-quite-yet/

[Hauldren Collider]

An improvement over the original.

Hey, in all likelihood it at least served an NFL jersey to at least one person. That's more than the number of people who have successfully purchased health insurance from Obamacare.

[Hauldren Collider]

Not yet it's not. People were actually buying the game.

QFT

[Sava]

A quick google search reveals you are wrong.

But I'm sure the demented old bastards who watch FOXNEWS will believe you.

After all, Obama is a secret muslim born in Kenya, right?