At
The Washington Post, Sarah Cliff reports on improvments in the Obamacare website:
Taking this all together, Medicare spokeswoman Julie Bataille told reporters that as of Dec. 1, "we're more in the zone of 80 percent of users being able to [sign up]."
As Ezra Klein and NPR's Julie Rovnerhave pointed out, it's difficult to verify this type of metric independently. "The zone of 80 percent" could stretch downward toward half of users having a successful experience, or upward, with nearly all shoppers getting through the enrollment process.
As noted earlier, the 80 percent standard is reminiscent of
Borat's version of the
Kazakhstan national anthem: "Filtration system a marvel to behold. It remove 80 percent of human solid waste."
