WASHINGTON – A “Saturday Night Live” parody of Obamacare and the healthcare.gov website got a lot of laughs when “SNL”‘s Kate McKinnon portrayed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Little did the cast know how accurate its over-the-top satire would be.
“Millions of Americans are visiting healthcare.gov, which is great news,” McKinnon said during the opening of last week’s show. “Unfortunately the site was only designed to handle six users at a time.”
While the audience laughed, it turns out the satire wasn’t that far off.
The Obama administration said there were 4.7 million unique visits to the website during its first 24 hours.
But here’s the not-so-funny part: Only six users were able to enroll, according to CBS News.
The figure is within newly released documents from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service “war room” meetings that took place after the website failed on Oct. 1, CBS News reports.
By the afternoon of Oct. 2, the number of enrollments was “approximately 100,” CBS says.
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