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Obamacare's New Metrics Clear as Mud
All the vagueness surrounding its Obamacare metrics probably helps the president's administration.Â
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The Barack Obama administration has finally told the news media what metrics it will be using to evaluate HealthCare.gov's performance. Juliet Eilperin and Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post report that it is looking for 80 percent of users to be able to buy health-care plans online:
This is still a lot vaguer than I'd like. For starters, are we saying that the 80 percent will be able to enroll in one shot? Or is this "80 percent by March 31"? In other words, are we measuring 80 percent of attempts to use the website or 80 percent of the folks who will ultimately enroll on the exchange?