{"id":5994,"date":"2014-03-27T19:29:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T19:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2016-07-29T18:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T18:21:28","slug":"reid-obamacare-delayed-because-people-are-not-educated-about-how-to-use-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/03\/27\/reid-obamacare-delayed-because-people-are-not-educated-about-how-to-use-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid: Obamacare Delayed Because \u201cPeople Are Not Educated About How to Use the Internet\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another extension has been granted by The White House for its Obamacare enrollment deadline, despite previous reports that the deadline could not be extended beyond March 31st. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) attributed this delay to people not being smart enough to use the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have hundreds of thousands of people who tried to sign up who didn\u2019t get through,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are some people who are not like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the Internet, and these people need a little extra time. The example they gave us is a 63-year-old woman came into the store and said, \u2018I almost got it. Every time I just about got there, it would cut me off.\u2019 We have a lot of people just like this through no fault of the Internet, but because people are not educated on how to use the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Reid, the fact that this woman was \u201ccut off\u201d has nothing at all to do with Healthcare.gov\u2019s embarrassing track record full of errors and security problems, but everything to do with a lack of internet education. He did not specify the problems with the internet that allegedly baffle so many Americans. Enrollment by telephone is an option, but the long wait times might mean that Americans are also not smart enough to use the telephone.<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/benswann.com\/reid-obamacare-delayed-because-people-are-not-educated-about-how-to-use-the-internet\/\" href=\"http:\/\/benswann.com\/reid-obamacare-delayed-because-people-are-not-educated-about-how-to-use-the-internet\/\">http:\/\/benswann.com\/ \u2026 to-use-the-internet\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another extension has been granted by The White House for its Obamacare enrollment deadline, despite previous reports that the deadline could not be extended beyond March 31st. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) attributed this delay to people not being smart enough to use the internet. \u201cWe have hundreds of thousands of people who tried to sign up who didn\u2019t get through,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are some people who are not like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the Internet, and these people need a little extra time. The example they gave us is a 63-year-old woman came into the store and said, \u2018I almost got it. Every time I just about got there, it would cut me off.\u2019 We have a lot of people just like this through no fault of the Internet, but because people are not educated on how to use the Internet.\u201d According to Reid, the fact that this woman was \u201ccut off\u201d has nothing at all to do with Healthcare.gov\u2019s embarrassing track record full of errors and security problems, but everything to do with a lack of internet education. He did not specify the problems with the internet that allegedly baffle so [&hellip;]<\/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":[1252],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}