The Gruber stupidity continues.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said 100,000 people applied for health insurance coverage Saturday, the first day of Obamacare’s year-two open enrollment.
Burwell said an additional 500,000 people already enrolled in the program “logged in effectively” despite criticism that many existing users were unable to access their accounts on healthcare.gov.
“Some people forget their usernames,” Burwell said, responding to criticism on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Some people are renewing their passwords and other things. If there are any other technical problems, our customer service folks are ready and able to help people.”
Burwell told host Chuck Todd that customer service representatives took more than 100,000 calls Saturday from people seeking help signing up for insurance. […]
Todd played a video of Gruber describing the healthcare legislation, which passed Congress in 2010 with the support of all Democrats with the exception of one House Republican, as “the spaghetti approach, which is, it takes a bunch of ideas that might work and throws them against the wall and we’ll see what sticks.”
But Burwell sidestepped a question by Todd, who wanted to know whether he would be used ever again as a healthcare reform consultant.
“With regard to Mr. Gruber and his comments, I think I’ve been clear. That’s something we fundamentally disagree with.”