A report in this afternoon’s Wall Street Journal claims that the federal HealthCare.gov website has resulted in only 40,000 to 50,000 successful enrollments nationwide as of last week — about 10 percent of projections. But White House spokesman Jay Carney told us early numbers “were always going to be low.”
How many people enrolled in http://t.co/Jus84Byeg5? Between 40,000 to 50,000. That's about 10% of forecasts, Full story coming shortly. @WSJ
— Matthew Rose (@MtthwRose) November 11, 2013
https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/400011802102075392
If http://t.co/C1MXoZHkiY signed up only 50,000 people so far, that's fewer than the capacity of Yankee Stadium.
— Razor (@hale_razor) November 11, 2013
https://twitter.com/BruceCarrollSC/status/400032782115553280
https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/400012584860270592
50,000 enrolled ocare, that's only 90% off needed #. Talking subsidizing cancelled policies. Idiots! Only way to fix this is to repeal it.
— joemo23, RRT (@joemo23) November 11, 2013
How many millions of Americans are going to have their health insurance canceled so that 50,000 could benefit from ObamaCare?
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) November 11, 2013
The easy answer to that: way more than 50,000.
https://twitter.com/simplyben/status/400036284384546816
The Obama administration is expected to share official numbers sometime this week.
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