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Senator Reid: Americans Un-Educated on the Internet = Low Obamacare Enrollment
2014-03-27
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to explain the Obama administration's latest decision to extend a key ObamaCare deadline by saying people just "are not educated on how to use the Internet."

The explanation, which glossed over the myriad technical problems HealthCare.gov had for weeks after its October launch, came as the administration faced Republican criticism for a late-breaking decision to extend a looming deadline for some. Open enrollment in the Affordable Care Act federal exchanges is set to end March 31, but the Department of Health and Human Services will let those who start the application process before that date have a bit more time to finish.

Reid, and the Obama administration, will not call the change a "delay."
Posted by:Omavising Ebbemp9815

#14  I think you're a little low on that estimate, #5 LG.
Posted by: Barbara   2014-03-27 21:06  

#13  (scratches head, picks out lice, wonders why fire hot no make computer go. Roasts mouse, eats)
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-03-27 18:21  

#12  Harry Reid: "I donÂ’t recall accusing Republicans of lying about ObamaCare horror stories".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2014-03-27 16:38  

#11  Imagine the headlines if a 'Pub said this.
Posted by: charger   2014-03-27 12:34  

#10  If Obama, Reid and the rest of the donks were so smart their system would have been idiot proof. Any programmer worth his or her salt knows that. So it sounds to me like the people who were not Internet savvy are the ones who attempted to create a working web site named HealthCare.gov and failed.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-03-27 11:52  

#9  Projection. Politicians who can't figure out how to create a functional web page and then call everyone else stupid.
Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815   2014-03-27 11:26  

#8  "Can't be our fault we passed the worst law in a hundred years; it's you idiots who've had 15 years to figure out how to use a browser!"

Yeah Dingy, that's convincing!
Posted by: Raj   2014-03-27 09:45  

#7  The problem for Harry (deserves to be hanged) Reid is that things are the opposite: the people ARE internet savvy, and we know exactly what they are up to with Obamacare, and therefore want nothing to do with it.

They young, especially, are not signing up. As many predicted, if they had just been listened to 5 years ago and the interim since.po
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-03-27 08:22  

#6  Those uneducated Americans is who keeps electing you.
Posted by: Airandee   2014-03-27 08:17  

#5  partially true

of the 60 senators who voted for this monstrosity, probably at least half were functionally illiterate about the internet
Posted by: lord garth   2014-03-27 07:17  

#4  people just "are not educated on how to use the Internet."

But wait Harry, that would likely be the older folks, which would be in your favor right ?

Posted by: Besoeker   2014-03-27 03:50  

#3  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to explain the Obama administration's latest decision to extend a key ObamaCare deadline by saying people I AM just "are not educated on how to use the Internet."

Harry Reid = " As I am, so is the nation "


Sorry Harry, but the internet has been available to US Citizens since 1990, and 81 % of the American public is internet savvey

Mr. Reid must be addressing the 19% of the population that just doesn't give a damn about Obamacare or the internet -- Somebody insert a Ven Diagram here.
Posted by: Jeatch B. Hayes3299   2014-03-27 00:47  

#2  How do such bottom feeders rise to the top like so many floaters? I cannot figure it.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2014-03-27 00:46  

#1  WOW! Isn't he brilliant. That must explain the low number of people who are signed up for Facebook, Twitter, Pinehurst, etc...

And don't forget Google went out of business a decade or so ago because people couldn't figure out how to use it.

Dumbass!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-03-27 00:15  

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