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On the first day the federal marketplace opened, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state’s biggest insurer, signed up about 200 people for subsidized coverage and provided 20,000 insurance quotes for potential customers online. The completed applications are ready to go and will be processed as soon as the computer glitches are fixed.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10...nts-praise-pan-new-federal.html#storylink=cpy
 
DeacHawk said:
On the first day the federal marketplace opened, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state’s biggest insurer, signed up about 200 people for subsidized coverage and provided 20,000 insurance quotes for potential customers online. The completed applications are ready to go and will be processed as soon as the computer glitches are fixed.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10...nts-praise-pan-new-federal.html#storylink=cpy
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I guess this sort of disproves CH's assertion that ZERO people in NC got access.
 
RJKarl said:
I guess this sort of disproves CH's assertion that ZERO people in NC got access.
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Um no. They received 200 apps that they are holding to send to the exchange when its ready. Customers couldnt get on.

"The completed applications are ready to go and will be processed as soon as the computer glitches are fixed."
 
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No, it isn't. ACA gets funded even if the national parks and DOD don't. So no matter what the GOP did, they couldn't stop from starting.

They shut the rest of the government down to stop something they couldn't stop by doing so.
 
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It was the first day. Seriously who cares. This thing won't be properly judged for years and even then Republicans will be claiming death panels and such.
 
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myDeaconmyhand said:
That article is so telling about the mindset of "fiscal" conservatives; They don't give a shit about the service industries or manual labor. Blue collar workers can all go get fucked. Since everyone working in McDonalds is an illegal or high schooler anyway. Yet we should lower taxes and raise incentives for businesses that provide a lot of low-income jobs.
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In public, it's always Obama's fault, however.
 
If you believe any of the following; public schools, state colleges, public libraries, freeways, public parks, Medicare etc., whether you like it or not, you are a socialist.

A street walker who gets $20 for a BJ and one of Eliot Spitzer's $8000/call girl are both whores.

Whether you are Bernie Sanders or whether you like public parks or public schools, you are a socialist.
 
Harry Reid dropping the Anglo dialect. As usual, he's all over the key issues:

 
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