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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (70000)	4/11/2014 1:34:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Obamacare numbers coming in huge No. Did they hit the original target? Maybe (Yes if you don't require people having paid for the insurance to count them.) Also they are much better then the earlier numbers. But hitting the target isn't "coming in huge" its just avoiding a specific point of failure (if indeed it was actually avoided). Also the numbers aren't exactly shocking when the government required signup, subsidized it, and then kept extending the deadlines until they got it. The Republicans did focus too much on the numbers. Its understandable, they early numbers were lousy and they made for an easy target. But eventually the numbers were likely to get better (possibly not quite as much better as they might be now, but certainly better then the pitiful early numbers. The numbers are no the primary problem with the law (except to the extent that in the fairly unlikely event that the numbers didn't improve from the early results the law would have clearly been a failure).