The first time I saw it, I was paying more attention to the floppy disk and the crossed-fingers. I didn't notice the Gordon Gecko 1980s cell phone "brick" that Obama is using. Heh. Nice touch.
It appears that there really were only six enrollments the first day and the administration tried to hide that:
http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/01/le...26+Run+Blog%29
Key quote:
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HHS has attempted to drum up uncertainty about the figures in the leaked documents. “These appear to be notes, they do not include official enrollment statistics," an HHS spokesperson said in a statement, according to The Washington Post. But while the notes do mention that some insurers didn't get the enrollment forms they were expected to receive, they express no doubts about the specific enrollment numbers presented. Indeed, the notes from the first day's meeting list exactly which insurers have reported successful enrollments.
The more likely explanation here is that Carney and Sebelius simply lied because the enrollment numbers were embarrassingly low.
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We are fucked. And not in a good way.
