No Shoot, Sherlock.
An industry source shared with TPM an email sent Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which said it plans to ask for new data from insurers that it hopes will “accurately capture” the number of HealthCare.gov enrollees who have paid their premiums.
The same source described a previous survey from the committee as “incredibly rigged” to reach a conclusion that only 67 percent of enrollees had paid their premiums, by ignoring the fact that the due date for some of those payments was still weeks out from the committee’s deadline.
So, in other words, it was about as accurate as next month’s weather forecast or Jerry Falwell’s creation theory, take your pick.
Egg, meet face.