Cooking the books on Obamacare enrollment

Six million by the weekend, 7 million by Monday, and if you believe the L.A. Times, it's more than 9 million! But wait, wasn't the mandate delayed? Didn't the regime just extend the deadline to give more time to reach their numbers? And now, oh wait, we reached'em! Uh huh...anybody smell a grease fire? 'Cause they're cooking the books on this like they've done with economic data and so much more...

HotAir: I’m not sure what “on track” means given that the deadline’s now come and gone. Presumably it’s a reference to last week’s extension for people who are “in line”: All you need to do is swear that you tried to sign up before March 31st but ran into technical problems and you get extra time to complete the process. That extension was, transparently, all about giving the White House a better chance to reach seven million sign-ups — their original projection for enrollment this year — so that they can now declare “mission accomplished.” It was, like so many of O-Care’s exemptions and shifting deadlines, all about politics. Even though anyone who’s following this issue knows that a good million or more of these sign-ups are or soon will be invalid due to nonpayment of premiums or the simple fact that “sign-ups” includes some people who selected a plan on Healthcare.gov even though they didn’t actually complete the purchase.

Not only are “sources” whispering to the media about up-to-the-minute sign-up data, an HHS spokesman reported last night that the website had received nearly five million visits on Monday alone. Which led Byron York to marvel:

Precisely! It's a sham. But even so, what of the millions more who've been kicked off their private health insurance due to Obamacare? Shhh! How many of those are being forced onto Obamacare to avoid a tax penalty? No, we can't talk about that. Oh, and how about Medicaid sign-ups vs. actual Obamacare enrollment?!



Allahpundit leaves us with a final ponderance:

In case you missed it yesterday, by one estimate, three-quarters of new ObamaCare enrollees are paying higher premiums now than they used to — which, of course, is very much by design, no matter what The One might tell you. If you’re going to have guaranteed issue and community rating for the sick, the extra revenue to pay for their treatment has to come from somewhere. Exit question: What happens next year when roughly half of new enrollees with subsidized coverage lose their subsidies, bumping them down to Medicaid coverage or no coverage at all?

Well, then the government will say the system's utterly broken, nothing works, so we have to begin the discussion of the government completely taking over and force-enrolling us all on single-payer Medicare of course, 'cause somehow that will work. What a damn disaster.

Related links: RUSH: It Is An All Out Regime And Media Swarm On ObamaCare
RUSH: Obama Media Is In Full Rejoice Mode Over ObamaCare Sign-Ups