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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1247578" data-attributes="member: 1246">Oh yeah, she’s dead serious.&nbsp;Via <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dem-congresswoman-obamacare-sign-ups-low-because-millions-think-gop-repealed-the-law/" target="_blank">Noah Rothman</a>:&nbsp;Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) joined MSNBC host Richard Lui on Monday to discuss the number of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries released by the Department of Health and Human Services over the weekend. She offered a novel suggestion for why enrollment figures fell short of projections: the GOP successfully convinced the public that the law was repealed.&nbsp;While 1.1 million have enrolled, 3 million enrollees were expected at this point and 7 million are needed by March 31, 2014, in order to ensure the program is financially viable. Norton posited that the enrollment figure is lower than expected for a number of reasons, including the fact that millions believe the Republican Party succeeded in repealing the law. [...]&nbsp;“What we have been battling now is, first, every time the House couldn’t think of anything else to do, it had a big debate on repealing Obamacare,” Norton continued. “So, there are millions of people out there who think it was repealed</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1247578, member: 1246"] Oh yeah, she’s dead serious. Via [URL='http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dem-congresswoman-obamacare-sign-ups-low-because-millions-think-gop-repealed-the-law/'][U]Noah Rothman[/U][/URL]: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) joined MSNBC host Richard Lui on Monday to discuss the number of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries released by the Department of Health and Human Services over the weekend. She offered a novel suggestion for why enrollment figures fell short of projections: the GOP successfully convinced the public that the law was repealed. While 1.1 million have enrolled, 3 million enrollees were expected at this point and 7 million are needed by March 31, 2014, in order to ensure the program is financially viable. Norton posited that the enrollment figure is lower than expected for a number of reasons, including the fact that millions believe the Republican Party succeeded in repealing the law. [...] “What we have been battling now is, first, every time the House couldn’t think of anything else to do, it had a big debate on repealing Obamacare,” Norton continued. “So, there are millions of people out there who think it was repealed [/QUOTE]

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