Mike Huckabee You might recall that last week, I said that only 269 people had enrolled on the Obamacare website in New Hampshire. The state gave out 281 moose-hunting permits, so I joked that more New Hampshire residents wanted to shoot a moose than buy into Obamacare. Well, a self-proclaimed fact-checking site called PolitiFact accused me of telling a “half-truth.” They claimed “it’s possible” that more people than that want Obamacare but couldn’t get through. And “it could be argued” that anyone who completed an application wanted it, even if they didn’t buy it yet. That’s a lot of weasel words for people who claim to deal in facts. Well, I don’t like being accused of telling a half-truth when even they admitted that my numbers were correct. So let me give you just a few more details: The number of “potential customers” in New Hampshire who filled out an application was 7,817. We don’t know how many of those are legitimate, or would ever have bought insurance, but I’ll give them that number. The moose-hunting permits are on a lottery system. They gave away 289 permits, but the number of applicants who definitely wanted one was 13,469. Even with my backwards, red state math education, I think that 13,469 moose hunters outnumber 7,817 potential Obamacare enrollees. Of course, I could argue that even more people wanted to shoot a moose, but couldn’t get through. But I trust the people who set up the moose hunting lottery application to have done it right. After all, that job is important. Finally, PolitiFact needs to learn the difference between an assumption and a fact. They might also want to look up the definition of the word “joke.” And the word opinion. As in, “It’s my opinion, from personal experience growing up poor, that most families would find a pot of moose chili to be a lot more useful than an overpriced insurance policy their doctor won’t take.”
Posted on: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:47:10 +0000
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