"If things aren't resolved in three weeks, we've got some serious, serious problems," said Timothy Jost, a law professor and health care reform expert at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va., and an Obamacare supporter. "I don't think we're anywhere close to there yet, but if the whole thing collapses, it'll be another generation before we get this problem fixed."
Yet defenders still proclaim victory. But when you hear about how Ms. X or Mr. Y succeeded in getting through the web site, remember that these are not representative of the whole country. They are on a 1:1 scale with actual enrollment statistics in their monthly goals.
Nope, no monthly enrollment targets at all:
Associated Press obtained an internal HHS memo from September 5, 2013 specifying the Administration's monthly enrollment targets—a half-million sign-ups in October, 3.3 million by December 31, and so on. Asked about this by AP, HHS not only declined to say if it is meeting its projections. The department issued a statement claiming that "The Administration has not set monthly enrollment targets." The spokesman did not cite the classic Marx Brothers line, "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
Tip to Instapundit on both.
Oh well. Sebelius' horrible political death won't have been in vain, what? Even if we go from calling it the Great Health Expansion to Health Expansion I.
