GOP Congressman: Massive Traffic To Obamacare Exchanges Was Members Of Congress And The Media

[DonViejo]

BY IGOR VOLSKY ON OCTOBER 4, 2013 AT 10:20 AM

A Republican congressman sought to dismiss the higher-than-expected web traffic for Obamacare’s HealthCare.gov on Friday by suggesting that most of the six million people who visited the law’s marketplace website were journalists and members of Congress, not uninsured Americans looking for coverage.

“I think if you subtract out members of Congress and their staff and reporters who called in those first 48 hours the numbers will be considerably lower,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), who is also a medical doctor, told CNN. “We will have an opportunity to dissect these numbers in our subcommittee of oversight investigations later this month or next month.” Watch it:

Obamacare’s website experienced high volumes of traffic in the first couple of days of enrollment, which may have contributed to massive glitches and delays.

The popularity of the site has led some conservatives to downplay the popularity of reform. On Tuesday, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer suggested that the numbers paled in comparison to the population of the United States and the Arkansas head of the group ‘Americans for Prosperity’ told The Voice’s The Alice Stewart Show on Thursday that most of the traffic was driven by the Drudge Report.

###

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/04/2733351/gop-congressmans-tries-to-explain-away-obamacares-popularity/

[IADEMO2004]

1. Rep. Stu Pidass (R) everywhere

[landolfi]

2. Bullshit. 6M visitors? Shouldn't what gets covered in the news have some filter of credibility?

Apparently this moron doesn't even know how to interpret web stats, so what responsible news organization let him comment? Maybe they should interview some elementary school students too and get their opinions.

[abelenkpe]

3. It's scary how easy it is for republicans to wrap themselves in delusion

in order to support their world view.

[libdem4life]

4. "disect those numbers" ???? With what, your scalpel? I can see it now.

And further, what did they do, fill in phony info just for fun and your subcommittee has the power to figure out who it was, their occupation and their political persuasion...assuming of course they were politically aligned with Obama and the ACA...with the cooperation of which agency... the NSA?

I'm getting tired of these blustering stuffed shirts/blouses...whatever.

[RedSpartan]

5. Is that the best you got? Weak sauce, bro.

[Arneoker]

6. This is a very sad and pathetic man.