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| Only Six Americans Enrolled on 'Obamacare' First Day |
| 2013-11-02 |
| [An Nahar] Just six people managed enrol in Obamacare on day one of the health plan's troubled rollout, documents released by Republican politicians showed, in a new embarrassment for the White House. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa released a document from a meeting on October 2, the day after HealthCare.gov went online, recording the paltry figure. By the end of October 2, two full days into the sign-up process, "there were 248 enrollments" nationwide, according to the notes from the Department of Health and Social Security. Both documents were posted Thursday on the website run by Issa's House oversight committee. President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... is counting on millions signing up for health care through online exchanges, part of a plan he pushed through in 2010 to help uninsured Americans get coverage. Republican politicians are uniformly opposed to the law, which they have nicknamed Obamacare, and seized on the poor enrollment figures as sign of a colossal failure of the website in particular. But Obama front man Jay Carney dismissed the focus on the six enrollees as a "dog-bites-man story." "We knew it was going to be a slow build," Carney told news hounds. "It's no question that it's been made more challenging by the poorly functioning website, and that's on us and that's why we're dedicating the resources and the brainpower to get it fixed." |
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