As Twitchy reported, the Obama administration has settled on a more “expansive” definition of the term “Obamacare enrollee.” In short, anyone who has placed a health plan in his or her online cart is considered an enrollee, even without hitting that critical “Buy” button.
According to the Washington Post’s Wonkblog:
Health insurance plans only count subscribers as enrolled in a health plan once they’ve submitted a payment. That is when the carrier sends out a member card and begins paying doctor bills.
When the Obama administration releases health law enrollment figures later this week, though, it will use a more expansive definition. It will count people who have purchased a plan as well as those who have a plan sitting in their online shopping cart but have not yet paid.
How is is possible to consider that person an enrollee? Because the government says so, that’s how.
That ability to expand a definition until it fits one’s needs has a lot of tweeters wondering how else they might apply these stretchy new definitions to real life.
I hope the IRS won't mind if file a tax return with deductions for business expenses for the company I considered starting.
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) November 12, 2013
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/400062538224001024
As per WH calculus, I am amending the no. of women I've dated to include women who've smiled at me. ie, bar tenders, flt attdts, etc.
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) November 12, 2013
BREAKING: The Jacksonville Jaguars announce that they will be using an expanded definition of "touchdown" for the remainder of the season.
— SFK (@stephenkruiser) November 12, 2013
My son just put his chores in a shopping cart and is asking for his allowance for the next 12 mos now
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) November 12, 2013
https://twitter.com/AG_Conservative/status/400065572697669632
You might even be an Obamacare enrollee by the time you finish reading this post.
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/400065094450544641
I didn't actually enroll but I did stay at a holiday inn last night #ObamacareEnrollee
— Middle Name's James (@doradopescado) November 12, 2013
https://twitter.com/BobHicks_/status/400065893591293952
https://twitter.com/KenInEastman/status/400065632151945218
People that have tweeted the #Obamacare hashtag. #ObamacareEnrollee
— ☤ Doc ☤ (@Doc_68W_) November 12, 2013
https://twitter.com/3patricksmith/status/400067044835852288
https://twitter.com/doradopescado/status/400066264699109376
Google “ObamaCare”? You’re an #ObamacareEnrollee
— (((WitCoHE))) (@E__Strobel) November 12, 2013
https://twitter.com/AmericanGypsea/status/400066677632532480
Listening to Thompson Twins "Doctor, Doctor" #ObamacareEnrollee
— ????? (@3patricksmith) November 12, 2013
The tens of millions that lost or will lose their "inferior" health plans. #ObamacareEnrollee
— Middle Name's James (@doradopescado) November 12, 2013
https://twitter.com/R_U_Srs/status/400067512252907521
People looking over the shoulders of people looking at http://t.co/HmUNYph6hT#ObamacareEnrollee
— Ken Carroll (@KenInEastman) November 12, 2013
https://twitter.com/N_Fatale/status/400068365110112256
#ObamacareEnrollee Once watched "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" during a commercial break
— 100 Proof (@ChampionCapua) November 12, 2013
https://twitter.com/ItsBarryYo/status/400070282410344448
Something about this doesn’t sound right.
By any reasonable standard, Obamacare is the greatest act of consumer fraud in the history of the universe.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 12, 2013
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