Quinnipiac — American voters oppose 72 – 22 percent Congress shutting down the federal government to block implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.
WaPo — New York has had more than 2 million visitors this morning, which is causing some trouble for people trying to sign up. To put that in perspective, New York has 2.5 million uninsured residents. Kentucky’s new marketplace, the Kynect, had processed over 1,000 applications for insurance by 9:30 a.m. this morning. The Web site has had more than 24,000 visits from people browsing the insurance rates.
Hawaii Health Connector; Idaho at Your Health Idaho; Illinois at Get Covered IL; Indiana at Healthcare.gov; Iowa at Healthcare.gov; Kansas at Healthcare.gov; Kentucky at KYnect; Louisiana at Healthcare.gov; Maine at Healthcare.gov; Maryland Health Connection;
More enrollments through the Call center! More families and individuals getting the coverage they need!— @AccessHealthCT
NYT — In the first few hours that their exchanges were operating, New York State’s reported two million visits, Kentucky’s 24,000, Illinois’s more than 62,000 and Connecticut’s 14,000.
Daily Kos — The crawl at the top of the Colorado Exchange tells a similar story, the support is overwhelming. This is huge evidence that the American people are coming out in an unprecedented show of support for ObamaCare.
Big thanks for the GOP-controlled Michigan legislature for fucking around and not taking advantage of the federal money to set up our own exchange!!!! Gotta love those fucks!
The Washington and Oregon sites have yet to be available.
Greg I’ve tried to get some info on WA. Most of my source guys are all furloughed today, but I did get ahold of one person who said that that site might be one of the ones with a dot-gov address that is being run by a third party contractor and that may be why I can’t get any info on it via back channels at HHS. I did hear that they might not have it set to try again until tomorrow or Thursday, they had a lot of hits.
Stephen,
Are the exchanges working? I’m reading the local SA rag and the TP commenters are gleefully saying that it isn’t up and running yet. Just one of their many lies?
I’m not going to go try it because I don’t want to stress the system, since I don’t need insurance.
It just occurred to me – Are those jerks doing a denial of service?
Naw, the Texas referral on Healthcare.gov was slammed, but I haven’t heard anything about any attacks.