OBAMACARE'S SAD STATE – AT 11:58 A.M. ET:  We can't say we weren't warned.  Obamacare was rigged in advance to provide the services first...and the premium increases later.  Makes people happy.  Wins elections for the Dems.  But things are getting serious now.  From The Hill: 

The Obama administration on Sunday begins what is expected to be the toughest enrollment period yet for ObamaCare.

The administration has sought to lower expectations, trimming back its overall enrollment projection while warning that the people who remain uninsured will be the hardest to reach.

Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Sylvia Mathews Burwell said she and her team are putting affordability at the forefront of the three-month enrollment sprint in an attempt to ease concerns about rising premiums.

“A lot of people don’t actually understand” how ObamaCare works, Burwell told reporters Thursday. “They don’t even know about the tax credits or the financial assistance. Some don’t even know at all, some are confused by it.”

They must have done a great information job.

Still, Burwell has acknowledged, “this open enrollment is going to be tougher than last year.”

The administration's goal of having 10 million people enrolled by the end of next year, up from 9.1 million this year, is widely viewed as a low target that would represent a modest expansion of President Obama’s signature domestic program.

“It isn’t very much growth,” said Karen Pollitz, a former HHS official in the Obama administration who is now at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

While there is uncertainty about how the enrollment period will go, some fear that not enough healthy people will sign up to create a “risk pool” that balances the sick enrollees and prevents premiums from spiking.

“That would be a concern,” Pollitz said. “Sort of, how big of a risk pool do you need?”

COMMENT:  Yeah, that's kind of a concern.  That determines what the premium increases will be.  Obamacare depends on an enrolled pool of young, healthy participants, whose premiums balance out the needs of the sicker population.  That ain't happenin'.

Get out your checkbooks.  They messed it up.  When Obamacare began we were told there were 40-45 million people uninsured.  There are still 29 million uninsured.  In other words, only 16 million of the uninsured are now covered.  And many have lost plans and doctors that they liked.

This guy Obama – what a leader!

November 1, 2015