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Obama flubs during health care conference call with community organizers, claims 'More than 100 MILLION Americans' have enrolled

By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor
PUBLISHED: 21:44 EST, 18 November 2013 | UPDATED: 21:51 EST, 18 November 2013
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President Barack Obama told a conference-call audience of 200,000 progressive volunteers on Monday evening that 'more than 100 million Americans' – in a nation of less than 314 million – have successfully signed up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act.

A weary-sounding Obama made the gaffe during a call hosted by Organizing For Action, the nonprofit successor to his campaign organization Obama For America.

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Obama may have been staying up late to watch a few too many college basketball games: The tired-sounding president said that 100 million Americans had registered for his health care plan -- a dramatic overstatement

'I just wanted to take a few minutes to speak to everybody because you guys are the ones who are in the trenches, day-in, day-out,' Obama said, complaining of 'misinformation' that has circulated about his signature health care law.

But 'problems with the website ... have created and fed a lot of this misinformation,' he admitted.

Boasting of his administration's skill in encouraging taxpayers to buy health insurance policies through public marketplaces, he claimed that 'in the first month alone, we've seen more than 100 million Americans already successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.'

Obama didn't skip a beat or make any effort to correct himself, and his next comments did little to clear up the mistake.

'You've got a million Americans who've completed an application for themselves or their families,' Obama said.

'And that represents about a million-and-a-half people.

And of those million-and-a-half people, you've already got a whole bunch of folks who have successfully signed up to get coverage, and you've got almost 400,000 folks who could gain access to Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.'

It's likely Obama meant to refer to 100,000 success stories, rather than 100 million.



White House press secretary Jay Carney put a positive spin on the upcoming conference call Monday afternoon, but acknowledged that 'a lot of focus, understandably, is being directed toward the problems with the websites and other issues'

Obama flubs: Affordable Care Act has enrolled '100 million'



Even that smaller number, however, relies on a flexible definition of what counts, and what doesn't, as an Obamacare subscriber.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Nov. 13 that 106,185 Americans chose health insurance plans through public exchanges between Oct. 1 and Nov. 2, including the headache-plagued healthcare.gov and the more stable marketplace websites run independently by 14 states and the District of Columbia.

But the Obama administration included in that number everyone who had identified a health care plan and placed it into a virtual online shopping cart. HHS hasn't said how many of them have actually made a purchase.

The president's claim that 'a million Americans ... have completed an application for themselves or their families' is also up for debate since that number refers to people who the government acknowledges 'have not yet selected a plan.'

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Obama LIES during health care call with community organizers, claims ‘more than 100 MILLION Americans’ have enrolled

Posted on 19 November, 2013 by Dylan



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Daily Mail President Barack Obama told a conference-call audience of progressive volunteers on Monday evening that ‘more than 100 million Americans’ – in a nation of less than 314 million – have successfully signed up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act.
And at a time when his signature legislative initiative’s website has made the White House the butt of jokes, the website hosting the conference call was plagued with its own connection errors and other malfunctions.
A weary-sounding Obama made his gaffe during the call, hosted by Organizing For Action, the nonprofit successor to his campaign organization Obama For America. The group claimed 200,000 people managed to listen, aided by an RSVP process that included a fundraising solicitation.’I just wanted to take a few minutes to speak to everybody because you guys are the ones who are in the trenches, day-in, day-out,’ Obama said, complaining of ‘misinformation’ that has circulated about his health insurance overhaul law.
But ‘problems with the website … have created and fed a lot of this misinformation,’ he admitted.
Boasting of his administration’s skill in encouraging taxpayers to buy health insurance policies through public marketplaces, he claimed that ‘in the first month alone, we’ve seen more than 100 million Americans already successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.’
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That number is att odds with reality, but Obama didn’t skip a beat or make any effort to correct himself, and his next comments did little to clear up the mistake.
‘You’ve got a million Americans who’ve completed an application for themselves or their families,’ he continued. ‘And that represents about a million-and-a-half people.’
‘And of those million-and-a-half people, you’ve already got a whole bunch of folks who have successfully signed up to get coverage, and you’ve got almost 400,000 folks who could gain access to Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.’
‘So effectively, in a month,’ he said, ‘we’ve already got half a million Americans who will likely have the security of health care – for the first time, in some cases, in their lives – as soon as January 1.’
It’s likely Obama meant to initially take credit for 100,000 success stories, rather than 100 million. But his mangling of the statistics put him off-track by a factor of 1,000.




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Pathological Liar in Chief Tells OFA Conference Callers ‘More Than 100 Million Americans’ Have Enrolled in Obamacare

Posted on November 18, 2013 by BMartin1776

Obama lies about people keeping their plans & doctors on obamacare, employment numbers, his knowledge on all the scandals from Fast & Furious to Benghazi but this one is just off the charts!
What the hell is going on? I’m going off my usual “script” something is seriously wrong with obama. This guy is lying so badly now he makes Jon Lovitz’ “Tommy Flanagan” character from SNL look like most honest person on the planet!
Aside from a child telling me stories of fantasy about a monsters green eyes on the bottom of his shoe or seeing a skeleton driving a truck down the street I’ve never in my life encountered someone who lies this much thinking he could get away with it! We know for a fact the figures on obamacare enrollment are dismal at just 106,000. Obama himself admitted the website doesn’t work, where it cannot handle a few thousand at a time. So how in all that is holy does he expect people to believe 100 million Americans have enrolled?! He is in fact claiming a third of the nation has signed up where the media on both sides has reported otherwise! OFA recruits were not the only ones on the conference call today, there were plenty of journalists from both sides of the fence who know he is lying. There is no way to spin this.
The lies are so outrageous now, so absurd there has to be something else at play at this point. For the life of me I cannot figure it out what it is he is up to and I’m not entertaining snide comments like “duh he is liar”, “what else is new” there is something else going on.
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Obama flubs during health care conference call with community organizers, claims ‘more than 100 MILLION Americans’ have enrolled
By David Martosko | DailyMail
President Barack Obama told a conference-call audience of progressive volunteers on Monday evening that ‘more than 100 million Americans’ – in a nation of less than 314 million – have successfully signed up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act.
And at a time when his signature legislative initiative’s website has made the White House the butt of jokes, the website hosting the conference call was plagued with its own connection errors and other malfunctions.
A weary-sounding Obama made his gaffe during the call, hosted by Organizing For Action, the nonprofit successor to his campaign organization Obama For America. The group claimed 200,000 people managed to listen, aided by an RSVP process that included a fundraising solicitation.
‘I just wanted to take a few minutes to speak to everybody because you guys are the ones who are in the trenches, day-in, day-out,’ Obama said, complaining of ‘misinformation’ that has circulated about his health insurance overhaul law.
But ‘problems with the website … have created and fed a lot of this misinformation,’ he admitted.
Boasting of his administration’s skill in encouraging taxpayers to buy health insurance policies through public marketplaces, he claimed that ‘in the first month alone, we’ve seen more than 100 million Americans already successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.’

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