EXCLUSIVE: Here's The House GOP's 'Incredibly Rigged' Obamacare Survey
The survey that House Republicans used to conclude that only 67 percent of HealthCare.gov enrollees had paid their first premium appears designed to yield an unfavorable result -- at least that's the perception of one of the people whose company was asked to respond to it.
"The survey was so incredibly rigged to produce this result, it was a joke," a source, whose company received it and who provided it to TPM, said. "Everyone who saw it knew exactly what the goal was."
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Nearly 40 percent of Obamacare enrollees signed up after March 15 -- which means their first premium wasn't due until after the committee finished collecting its data. The GOP's 67 percent figure was therefore founded on bad math: It accounted for all enrollees, but it demanded figures be compiled more than two weeks before the actual deadline for many people to make their payments.
They were clearly trying to get a specific result to rebut any positive news about enrollment," the source said. "If they were really trying to get full data, they would have waited until early May for the answers."
