{"id":19300,"date":"2013-11-01T20:08:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T00:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19300"},"modified":"2013-11-01T20:08:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T00:08:51","slug":"obamacare-website-enrolls-the-cast-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19300\/obamacare-website-enrolls-the-cast-of-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Website Enrolls the Cast of &#8220;Friends&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since President Obama was\u2014prior to its implosion\u2014so hung-ho about <a href=\"http:\/\/thewilderness.me\/healthcare-404\/\" target=\"_blank\">comparing healthcare.gov to cutting edge private sector companies<\/a> like Apple, Amazon, and Kayak, he certainly can&#8217;t mind the kind of data scrutiny that such companies thrive on. Try this one on for size: A<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/politics\/politicsnow\/la-pn-obamacare-enrollments-opening-day-20131031,0,7280894.story#axzz2jOOgljRd\" target=\"_blank\">ccording to the <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/politics\/politicsnow\/la-pn-obamacare-enrollments-opening-day-20131031,0,7280894.story#axzz2jOOgljRd\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;\">Just six enrollments occurred on the opening day for <\/span><a style=\"color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/\">www.healthcare.gov<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;\">, the troubled <\/span><a id=\"EVGAP00039\" style=\"color: #666666; text-decoration: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;\" title=\"Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/health\/healthcare-laws\/affordable-care-act-%28obamacare%29-EVGAP00039.topic\">Obamacare<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;\"> website, according to documents released late Thursday by a House oversight committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;\">Rep.\u00a0<a id=\"PEPLT003178\" style=\"color: #666666; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Darrell E Issa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/politics\/government\/darrell-e-issa-PEPLT003178.topic\">Darrell Issa<\/a> (R-Vista), chairman of the\u00a0<a id=\"ORGOV000312\" style=\"color: #666666; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/politics\/government\/u.s.-house-committee-on-oversight-government-reform-ORGOV000312.topic\">House Oversight and Government Reform Committee<\/a>, obtained the tally from meeting notes compiled by officials inside the &#8220;war room&#8221; at the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, which was overseeing the rollout of the insurance marketplace.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;\">If Apple had first-day numbers like that, someone (actually, many someones) would be fired. Mr. President?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since President Obama was\u2014prior to its implosion\u2014so hung-ho about comparing healthcare.gov to cutting edge private sector companies like Apple, Amazon, and Kayak, he certainly can&#8217;t mind the kind of data scrutiny that such companies thrive on. Try this one on for size: According to the Los Angeles Times: Just six enrollments occurred on the opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3892,150,2536,35],"class_list":["post-19300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-darrell-issa","tag-insurance-exchanges","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19301,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19300\/revisions\/19301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}