Charles Pierce: Healthcare Enrollment Is Now ... Surging?

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/272-39/20513-focus-healthcare-enrollment-is-now-surging

You mean, if you commit to making something work, instead of deliberately conspiring to make something not work -- like if you put gas in your car and not hydrochloric acid -- that thing is more likely to, you know, work?

Genius!

"What we are seeing is incredible momentum," said Peter Lee, director of Covered California, the nation's largest state insurance marketplace, which accounted for a third of all enrollments nationally in October. California - which enrolled about 31,000 people in health plans last month - nearly doubled that in the first two weeks of this month. Several other states, including Connecticut and Kentucky, are outpacing their enrollment estimates, even as states that depend on the federal website lag far behind. In Minnesota, enrollment in the second half of October ran at triple the rate of the first half, officials said. Washington state is also on track to easily exceed its October enrollment figure, officials said.

However, I'm not sure I follow this bit of logic.

The growing enrollment in those states is a rare bit of good news for backers of the Affordable Care Act and suggests that the serious problems with the law's rollout may not be fatal, despite critics' renewed calls for repeal.

[NightWatcher]

1. Most people heard about the website problems in October, so they waited til November

and signed up this month.

Derp, da da derp.

Obama's second term is ruined for sure. Damn you healthcare website that seems to be working fine now.