Editor’s note: The post and title have been amended to correct the erroneous premise. We regret and apologize for the error.
https://twitter.com/pinecohen/status/394232501688098816
@HealthCareTara Why are you promoting such atrocities?
— Billy Hobden (@BillyHobden1) October 26, 2013
White House senior communications adviser Tara McGuinness, whose job is to spread the good news about the Obamacare rollout, today linked to liberal magazine The New Republic to trumpet the latest. Actually, it’s the second time she linked to a chart by Jonathan Cohn that SAYS IT ALL.
via @CitizenCohn ONE CHART says it all on enrollment: http://t.co/acANOGrGlU
— T. McGuinness (NARA) (@Tara44) October 24, 2013
. @HealthCareTara @CitizenCohn do you know what would make a good chart? Actual enrolment nos.
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) October 24, 2013
That’s right; the good news is that less than a third of one percent of folks in Massachusetts signed up for the health care marketplace since it opened on Oct. 1. [Editor’s note: The article is actually referring to sign-ups for the “Commonwealth Care” program in Massachusetts from 2007, not sign-ups for Obamacare in October 2013]
That might not seem like much, but The New Republic’s piece, titled, “A Chart That Will Help Dispel Your Obamacare Hysteria,” handily explains that early enrollment is “supposed to be slow.” What happened to the spin, then, that the HealthCare.gov site failed because it was jammed with millions anxious to get insured?
Perhaps that question will be answered this week as the administration rolls out its latest promotional effort.
Looking ahead to this week senior administration officials out in force to reach public about health law and enrollment . . .
— T. McGuinness (NARA) (@Tara44) October 26, 2013
https://twitter.com/JMacNYC/status/394236119098744832
@HealthCareTara Not even $700M on PR & $400M on a website will help Americans accept the failure that is obamacare
— Pentecost Toad (@ToadonaWire) October 26, 2013
@HealthCareTara "But what about your gaffes?!"
— Tom (@BoreGuru) October 26, 2013
@HealthCareTara I would prefer SEC Sebelius would speak to my Congressional reps. She's been anywhere but Washington since this blew up.
— (((Captain Ratio Hornblower))) (@jwvansteenwyk) October 26, 2013
@HealthCareTara We're all ears.
— Dan Mangan (@_DanMangan) October 27, 2013
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