ACA: The Shrinking-Shrinking Sign Up Projection

‘Late summer before the federal health exchanges launched, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Obama administration had a goal of getting 7 million people fully enrolled in Obamacare by March 2014.

"I think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of March 2014,"Sebelius said during an interview with NBC News.

The White House has been slowly backing away from that number as health exchanges around the country continue to fail and as few people show interest in the program. Now, Vice President Joe Biden is admitting the White House probably won't be meeting its goal of 7 million people enrolled by March.’

‘"We may not get to seven million, we may get to five or six, but that's a hell of a start," Biden said, according to a pool report of his meeting.

The Obama administration said last week that 3.3 million people have enrolled in private Obamacare health plans between October 1 and Feb 1.’

‘Keep in mind the definition of enrolled is a broad one. The federal government counts people putting Obamacare plans in their online shopping carts as "enrolled" before they pay for the plan or check out.’ - Biden: That 7 Million Obamacare Enrollee Goal is Probably Not Going to Happen, townhall.com, 02/20/2014 and Biden: 'We may not get to 7 million' by Obamacare deadline, Reuters, 02/19/2014

Link to the complete articles appear below:

　

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/02/20/biden-that-7-million-obamacare-enrollee-goal-is-probably-not-going-to-happen-n1797884?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm


http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/20/us-usa-healthcare-biden-idUSBREA1J02N20140220

Jared "the king of spin" Bernstein and the Dopeler Effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

Ah yes, Jared Bernstein, the non-economist chief economist. Yes, the non-economist chief economist for Vice President Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr.  Jared, one of the main designers of the 2009 stimulus plan [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009] also known as the spruce goose of all stimulus plans ever concocted. The one trillion dollar (with interest) social engineering plan times some multiplier of Keynesian foolishness. The stimulus plan that would never allow unemployment to exceed 8%.

In two minutes and twenty seconds of the opening of the above video Jared Bernstein manages to fire off  vilification through verbal virtuosity using such trite taking points such as: trickle down economics (a non existent economic theory), slashing spending, hurting most vulnerable people in the economy, Robin Hood in reverse, less jobs and income for the middle class, deregulation hurts finance, etc. Yes, the Dopeler Effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

Better yet, Jared even manages to refer to himself as an "economist". The Double Bass major from the Manhattan School of Music is an economist? Really? "...graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts where he studied double bass with Orin O'Brien. He earned a Masters Degree in Social Work from the Hunter School of Social Work, and, from Columbia University, he received a Masters Degree in Philosophy and Ph.D. in Social Welfare". (1) Yes, Jared, quite the philosophical, musical, social worker.

Notes:

(1) Education: Bernstein attended Ridgefield High School in Ridgefield, Connecticut,[4] and graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts where he studied double bass with Orin O'Brien. He earned a Masters Degree in Social Work from the Hunter School of Social Work, and, from Columbia University, he received a Masters Degree in Philosophy and Ph.D. in Social Welfare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Bernstein#Education