Obama administration officials announced a “two week extension” in the deadline to enroll in “ObamaCare” or face a penalty defined as a tax.
Asked about this “implementation delay” Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said that there has been “no” delay.
He added that some of the users who experienced “problems with the website early on” needed more time, because “people are not educated about how to use the Internet.”
“There’s no hiccup or delay,” Reid insisted. “We had hundreds of thousands of people who tried to sign up and didn’t get through.”
“There are some people who are not like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the Internet,” Reid continued. “And these people need a little extra time.”
He added that many people, like a 63-year-old woman who was recently profiled on public radio, are “not educated” on how to interact with “online” tools.
Absent from Harry’s explanation for why “ObamaCare” signups have failed to meet earlier expectations was any mention of the well-documented “failings” of the healthcare.gov website.
The White House announced that the open “enrollment period” to sign up for “ObamaCare” would be extended past March 31, hinting that the “grace period” could be as long as six weeks.
Honor System: “A system in which people are expected to be honest although they have the opportunity to cheat.”
Consumers can now “apply” for a deadline extension by using the “honor system” the Washington Post reported.
Because “the government will not try to determine whether the person is telling the truth,” consumers will only be required to “mark a box” on the healthcare.gov website indicating that they “tried to sign up” before the March 31 deadline.
Harry Reid blames people’s “lack of understanding” on how to use that newfangled contraption called “Internet,” which is like a “series of tubes” or something.
Never mind that young people are signing up at a “fraction of the rate forecasted” by the administration; and they certainly know “how to” use the Internet.
Anyway, the “blame-shifting and reality-denying” of Senator Reid would normally be considered “astounding”, but it’s the kind of thing that we’ve all come to “know and love” from the Democratic Senate.
The “only” people who “don’t” know how to “use” the Internet are the people who “built” Healthcare.gov
You know you are “desperate” when your only defense for “ObamaCare” is that people don’t know “how to use” the Internet.
Just because this is what Harry Reid looks like “trying to use the internet,” doesn’t mean anyone else is stupid.
We don’t hear any problems from the young people. Of course they understand the Internet, but they’re not signing up. So, what’s the problem?
Young people “don’t want to pay for these old people that don’t know how to run the Internet.”
According to the Democrats, it’s always our “fault.” It’s always our “mistakes.” We are always too “stupid.” We are always too “incompetent.”
We are just not “bright” enough to “deal” with these magnificent, “progressive” systems these liberal “morons” design.
I guess Harry is a little more “confused” than we typically give him “credit” for.
Those who were “intelligent” enough to sign up and found their new insurance policies “lacking,” are all just a bunch of liars.
Don’t waste any time trying to read between the lines here. It’s that simple.
Harry Reid and Obama think Americans are “just too stupid to know what’s good for them.”
