Almost half a million people signed up in a week.
It’s the close of week one of the open enrollment period for Obamacare,
aka, “the glitch” that killed American’s desire for affordable health
insurance, according to your media and repugicans last year.
In week one (November 15 -November 21) of open
enrollment on year two, 462,125 people selected plans for Marketplace
coverage and 1 million plus people spoke with call center
representatives, according to numbers released by Health and Human
Services on Wednesday. The Obama administration says that of those who
selected plans, 48% were new.
Wingnuts will point and gloat because the
administration released inaccurate information earlier this fall, but
that is also why they are doing a weekly release. Neither the website
glitch nor the enrollment number inaccuracy invalidate the need for
affordable healthcare. And yet still, for all of the trolling, repugicans have yet to offer a viable, specific alternative.
The report also showed over 1.6 million reviewed
prices for coverage, 1 million people surfed the site shopping for
coverage with wait times of over three minutes to speak to someone on
the phone.
Things are going so well for Obamacare that the
countdown clock to repugicans taking credit for it and renaming it has
begun. Soon, they’ll try to disappear “Obamacare”, and they’ll issue
stern looks to anyone who uses the term, as if it is shameful to credit
the President for his legacy policy.
The thing is, President Obama and the Democrats
passed Obamacare because they knew people were dying from lack of access
to affordable healthcare. They did something about it. Yeah, there were
some glitches when it rolled out, and they were exacerbated by the repugican refusal to play along with how the law was written, forcing
extra burden onto the system, but just like Social Security, people love
their Obamacare.
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