Brit Hume torches White House with key Obamacare question [Bonus Putin snark]

Lori Ziganto | 9:10 AM on March 18, 2014

Good question in response to this Obamacare-pimping tweet from the White House:

Good news: More than 5 million Americans have signed up for private health plans through the #ACA → http://t.co/r4CFMdRDSA #GetCoveredNow

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) March 17, 2014

Fox News’ Brit Hume then entered with his question for the White House:

And how many had coverage before and lost it because of Obamacare? “@BradOnMessage: @WhiteHouse how many have paid premiums?”

— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 17, 2014

Boom. Hume has summed up the disaster known as Obamacare before by noting its effect with devastating result: To uninsure the insured.
https://twitter.com/KristinaRibali/status/445694304648826880

So again: How many of 5m have paid? And how many were previously uninsured?

— Byron York (@ByronYork) March 17, 2014

More good questions, but Mr. Hume again cut to the chase.

@ByronYork The key number is net newly insured. That would be total insured & paid minus number who lost coverage because of Obamacare.

— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 17, 2014

Could well be but hard to calculate since we don't know how many have paid. “@guypbenson by my count, that's less than 1 million.”

— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 17, 2014

Funny that.

@brithume @ByronYork I would just like to understand why we have to have this data recording conversation in this day and age.

— WhiskeyTangoBrain (@Whiskey_Brain) March 17, 2014

https://twitter.com/JasonBWhitman/status/445703831217664000

But, transparency and stuff!

Hume also scored with this deadpan comment: