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, according to the WTOP website.
"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.
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