Ezekiel Emanuel: Obamacare Enrollment Will Hit 6.8 Million
Monday, 31 Mar 2014 10:17 AM
By Wanda Carruthers
One of the primary architects of
Obamacare predicted the final enrollment number for healthcare insurance after
Monday's deadline would come close to the original White House estimate of 7
million.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, former White House adviser for health policy,
expected the final tally to hit 6.8 million. He based the prediction on a Michigan web developer.
"The best website is this
place called ACAsignup.net. And the guy is a web developer in Michigan and has been the most accurate
person so far. His prediction today is 6.78 million. And it's going to be in
that range," Emanuel told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday.
Of the people who signed up,
Emanuel said about 83 percent had paid their premiums. He said the numbers
looked healthy "given two months of a terrible website."
"I think, actually, the
administration can be comfortable," Emanuel said.
Of those who enrolled in Obamacare, Emanuel guessed healthy
people would probably total around 28 percent — enough to "keep the rates
sufficiently stable."
Emanuel explained after the rocky
Obamacare rollout, the administration was "beginning to know the
characteristics of a good" website.
"It's actually working. And,
so that's, I think, another real surprise, that they really have the website
working mechanically, in terms of server capacity and all of that," he
said.
When "Morning Joe" co-host Willie
Geist pointed out the website was down as of midnight Sunday, Emanuel
laughed and said it had been working when he logged in Sunday at 10 p.m.
William Geist
William
Geist is a co-host for Morning Joe,
and a director at the Michael J. Fox
Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
Note: Donna E. Shalala was
a director at the Michael J. Fox
Foundation for Parkinson's Research, a director at the UnitedHealth Group Inc., a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Tom Daschle was an adviser at the UnitedHealth Group Inc., is the
chairman for the Center for American
Progress, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Center
for American Progress was a funder for the America's Health Insurance Plans.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, and was the health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and
a supporter for the Center for American
Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Committee for Economic Development, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Angela
F. Braly is a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and was a director at the America's Health Insurance Plans.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP for the CGI Group Inc., and
a VP at the Boeing Company.
Ronald A. Williams
is a trustee at the Committee for
Economic Development, a director at the Boeing Company, and was a director at the America's Health Insurance Plans.
Kenneth M.
Duberstein was a VP for the Committee
for Economic Development, is a tustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a director at the Boeing Company.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Ezekiel Emanuel’s
brother, the Chicago (IL) mayor, and
was the White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and Obamacare is his signature
policy initiative.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Boeing Company, was the lobby firm for
the Center for American Progress,
and the America's Health Insurance Plans.
Center
for American Progress was a funder for the America's Health Insurance Plans.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, and was the health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
Tom Daschle is the chairman for the Center for American Progress, was an
adviser at the UnitedHealth Group Inc.,
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Jeannine M. Rivet
is the EVP for the UnitedHealth Group
Inc., and was a director at the America's
Health Insurance Plans.
Lewis
G. Sandy is the SVP for the UnitedHealth
Group Inc., and was a director at the America's
Health Insurance Plans.
Scott
Styles was the SVP for the America's
Health Insurance Plans, and Pete
Sessions chief of staff.
Pete
Sessions chief of staff was Scott
Styles, is a member of the Tea Party
Caucus, and his father is William S.
Sessions.
William S.
Sessions is Pete Sessions’s father,
a director at the Constitution Project,
and was a trustee at the Committee for
Economic Development.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Morton H. Halperin
was a director at the Constitution
Project, a senior fellow at the Center
for American Progress, and is a senior adviser for the Open Society Foundations.
Center
for American Progress was a funder for the America's Health Insurance Plans.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the American Constitution Society, and the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and
a supporter for the Center for American
Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Committee for Economic Development, the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Mariano-Florentino
Cuellar is a director at the American
Constitution Society, a director at the Constitution Project, and was a special assistant to the president
for the Barack Obama administration.
Marvin H. Edwards
was a director at the Constitution
Project, and is a VP for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a director at the General Dynamics Corporation.
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, was a lifetime trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a director at the General Dynamics Corporation.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Ezekiel Emanuel’s
brother, the Chicago (IL) mayor, and
was the White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
James L. Jones
Jr. is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), was a director at the General
Dynamics Corporation, the national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a director
at the Boeing Company.
Madelyn Payne
Dunham was an aircraft inspector for the Boeing Company, and Barack
Obama’s maternal grandmother.
Barack
Obama’s maternal grandmother was Madelyn
Payne Dunham, and Obamacare is
his signature policy initiative.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP for the CGI Group Inc., and
a VP at the Boeing Company.
Donna
S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI
Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Donna
E. Shalala was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, a director at the UnitedHealth Group Inc., a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a director at the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's
Research.
William
Geist is a director at the Michael
J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, and a co-host for Morning Joe.
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