Which deadline day? The deadline has been moved multiple times.
They supposedly hit their magic number, and we're supposed to break out the champagne?
RIIIIIIIIGHT!!!
Of course "sign-ups" is a floating terms. Simply going onto the site is a "sign-up". Putting something in the cart but not paying for it is a "sign-up". People renewing Medicaid (which they already had) is a "sign-up".
The whole selling point of this law was to get 30 million people insured WHO DID NOT HAVE INSURANCE. Yet, when you ask Team Obama to give those specific numbers (even Kathleen Sebelius, in front of Congress), they get mush-mouthed.