Monday, December 23, 2013

Obama regime quietly extends Obamacare enrollment deadline

No gift from Santa...
WaPo: At midnight Monday, the official deadline arrives for Americans to sign up through the new federal health insurance exchange for health plans that begin Jan. 1. But, without any public announcement, Obama administration officials have changed the rules so that people will have an extra day to enroll, according to two individuals with knowledge of the switch.

Over the weekend, government officials and outside IT contractors working on the online marketplace’s computer system made a software change that automatically gives people a Jan. 1 start date for their new coverage as long as they enroll by 11:59 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
...but just on schedule for Baracka Claus! Another change of the rules by our imperial president.

However, the website was still crashing today as Obama -- scratch that, as a White House aide -- enrolled, of course exempting the rest of the family, though. So who knows...maybe we'll get another day, and another, and another...


And the collective sycophants within and outside the White House wonder why both Obama and Obamacare are taking a nose dive in the polls?

Though Moe Lane wrote this piece yesterday, it practically reapplies per today's reset...and pretty much sums up how this debacle will (or rather won't) proceed:
RedState: So, the Obama administration needs to sign up – four million? Five? Six? …LOTS – of people tomorrow if they hope to hit their original target numbers. Let me do some spoilers:
  • The Obama administration is not going to hit its target numbers for federal exchange signups.
  • The state exchanges are not going to hit their numbers, either. The best percentage that any state exchange has hit, to date, is less than 23%.
  • Those numbers from the last link are likely to go up. They are not going to go up insanely.
  • And there is no certainty about what happens next. 
Related link: Administration pushes back ObamaCare sign-up deadline by a day