Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace got called out by Senator Angus King (I-ME) for reporting false information regarding enrollment numbers for Obamacare.
Reporting that enrollment so far was at about 6 million so far, Wallace went on to report that 38% need to be young healthy people but only a quarter of those enrolled are young, that only 27% of those enrolled were previously uninsured, and that “up to 23%” of those enrolled have not paid yet.
However, King went on to clarify those numbers:
“I checked the numbers this morning. It is now 6,563,000. There were with 500,000 people on the call centers on Friday, and a million and a half on the website…So there really is a huge surge. Number two, WellPoint, which is one of the big insurance companies, said a couple weeks ago that the signups are getting younger by the day. In other words, young people, not surprisingly, are the last people to sign up. I suspect that’s who is signing up to day and tomorrow. So the data is making a lot of difference.”
Wallace tried to hit back asking: “What about the number that are uninsured, which is a quarter, and what about the number that haven’t paid, which is also about a quarter?”
King hit back again noting:
“The McKenzie & Company did that 25% uninsured [study]. The only real numbers we have are from New York and Kentucky. In Kentucky at 75% of the people signing up were previously uninsured. In New York, 59%. So, those numbers are going to sort themselves out over time.”
“But, there is no denying it, they’re going to make that 7 million target, which was set a couple years ago. Two months ago, if you asked me I would have said there’s no chance because the rollout was so bungled.”
You can watch the two of them sparring, courtesy of Fox News.
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