{"id":4513,"date":"2013-10-22T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2013-10-22T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T13:38:32","slug":"more-people-sign-up-for-mars-trip-than-for-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/10\/22\/more-people-sign-up-for-mars-trip-than-for-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"More People Sign Up for Mars Trip than for Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp\u2019s Mars One, an organization planning to establish a colony on the red planet by 2023, is more popular than Obamacare. Lansdrop has collected more signatures for his improbable project than all the number of Americans who have enrolled in Obama\u2019s mandatory health insurance fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the first Delaware resident signed up for Obamacare. On Thursday, it was reported that nobody in Alaska had bothered to sign up for the program due to the government\u2019s inability to keep up its glitch-prone enrollment website. In response, Alaskan Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski fired off a letter to the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis system that cost more than $400 million, took three years to build, and was billed as a one-stop shop for individuals seeking health insurance is not working as advertised,\u201d Murkowski wrote. \u201cIn its first two weeks of operation, I am told that no one was able to enroll in the Alaska Exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry131022-173637\">More People Sign Up for Mars Trip than for Obamacare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp\u2019s Mars One, an organization planning to establish a colony on the red planet by 2023, is more popular than Obamacare. Lansdrop has collected more signatures for his improbable project than all the number of Americans who have enrolled in Obama\u2019s mandatory health insurance fiasco. On Wednesday, the first Delaware resident signed up for Obamacare. On Thursday, it was reported that nobody in Alaska had bothered to sign up for the program due to the government\u2019s inability to keep up its glitch-prone enrollment website. In response, Alaskan Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski fired off a letter to the Obama administration. \u201cThis system that cost more than $400 million, took three years to build, and was billed as a one-stop shop for individuals seeking health insurance is not working as advertised,\u201d Murkowski wrote. \u201cIn its first two weeks of operation, I am told that no one was able to enroll in the Alaska Exchange.\u201d via More People Sign Up for Mars Trip than for Obamacare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[128,1252],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-aca","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}