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Old 10-02-2013, 07:47 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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That's because you looked up Obamacare...
Nope, just looked up the basic definition of the word insurance and none of those words were in the definition.
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Old 10-02-2013, 07:50 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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How does 81,000 calls get taken by people who are on furlough?

Actually they said people on the left, you then replied as if you spoke for everyone. I sure hope everyone on the left knows the difference between a deduction, and a credit..
I don't know, how?

Well he did say people like me, therefore I asked him when I said anything like that. It is a fair question.
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Old 10-02-2013, 07:52 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Before or after he decided that kids with cancer don't matter....? Hmmmmm
Huh? Are you one of those people who think the parents should pay for the full cost of their child getting cancer?
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Old 10-02-2013, 07:53 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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How does 81,000 calls get taken by people who are on furlough?

Actually they said people on the left, you then replied as if you spoke for everyone. I sure hope everyone on the left knows the difference between a deduction, and a credit..
ACA rollout is not part of the CR. That is what is so ridiculous about the Republican shutdown - it can't do a thing to stop the ACA. Exchanges are open, phone banks are open, IT staff is standing by and people are signing up. The train left the station and there is nothing the wingers can do about it.
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Old 10-02-2013, 07:56 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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ACA rollout is not part of the CR. That is what is so ridiculous about the Republican shutdown - it can't do a thing to stop the ACA. Exchanges are open, phone banks are open, IT staff is standing by and people are signing up. The train left the station and there is nothing the wingers can do about it.
If the shutdown didn't effect so many hard working people, I would say it is funny watching this all blow up in the House Republicans' faces.
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:05 PM
 
Location: USA
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Here are some numbers:

Web traffic, glitches slow Obamacare exchanges launch | Reuters

Obamacare's Day 2 message: Forget Washington - Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

Overwhelming Demand for Obamacare Shows Potential Success - Bloomberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/us...1&_r=2&ref=us&

The federal site, healthcare.gov, recorded 2.8 million hits

7.5 million people visited New York's site, 2.5 million in the first half hour

100,000 people visited Minnesota's site by mid-afternoon

Illinois had over 65,000 unique visitors

About 55,000 in Colorado

Connecticut exchange had 28,000 web hits by 4 p.m.

Over 24,000 people visited Kentucky's exchange site

As many as 16,000 hits a second in California

Over 8,000 people visited Idaho's exchange site

I'm sure these numbers have increased since the initial reports.

End of thread?
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:09 PM
 
Location: Great Falls, Montana
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If the shutdown didn't effect so many hard working people, I would say it is funny watching this all blow up in the House Republicans' faces.
But really ... I'll give all of the credit to Jimmy Carter for this most recent government shutdown - because without him, government shutdowns wouldn't exist - If Democrats actually thought beyond the lengths of their noses, we wouldn't be seeing this government shutdown today ..



What's really funny, is watching Democrats boohoo over a process that they themselves actually created ...

How's that political blowback workin' out for ya?
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:10 PM
 
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by ntwrkguy1 View Post
The bigger question: will anyone believe the figures they release?
The next Republican talking point will be that these guys cook the numbers:

Healthcare.gov Site Info
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:11 PM
 
Location: USA
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Just like the polls that showed Romney losing.
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Great Falls, Montana
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Here are some numbers:

Web traffic, glitches slow Obamacare exchanges launch | Reuters

Obamacare's Day 2 message: Forget Washington - Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

Overwhelming Demand for Obamacare Shows Potential Success - Bloomberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/us...1&_r=2&ref=us&

The federal site, healthcare.gov, recorded 2.8 million hits

7.5 million people visited New York's site, 2.5 million in the first half hour

100,000 people visited Minnesota's site by mid-afternoon

Illinois had over 65,000 unique visitors

About 55,000 in Colorado

Connecticut exchange had 28,000 web hits by 4 p.m.

Over 24,000 people visited Kentucky's exchange site

As many as 16,000 hits a second in California

Over 8,000 people visited Idaho's exchange site

I'm sure these numbers have increased since the initial reports.

End of thread?
The news media knows about as much about the internet as they do about guns - nothing.

As soon as you can get these news outlets to learn the difference between hits and visits, you can get back to us ..

Here's a primer:

A "hit" means exactly nothing .. a 1px x 1px spacer.gif can count as 1 hit - 65,000 unique visitors can have the capacity to stack up hundreds of millions of hits ...

And then .. How much of that traffic was produced by bots or other automated parsing agents (bots can produce upwards of thousands of visits and millions of hits per day .. Bots, if not controlled can burn a server to the ground .. do these site admins even know the difference between a bot, a hit, a unique visitor? - My money says that they don't - the fact that your posted sources don't even attempt to separate the two .. in writing ... tells me that they don't.
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