“It isn’t about the numbers, it’s about the quality of the experience” said Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius speaking to reporters on a conference call about the amount of people who were able to sign up for the affordable Care Act.

“The Taylor family of Silicon Valley, California signed up after only 4 tries.” She said.

Upon hearing the good news, the President was notified immediately and his huge public relations organization sprang into action.

‘Harvey Taylor, a senior instructional computer lab teacher and his wife Georgette, an adjunct professor of computer science at Stanford University, who, along with their sons Billy and Barty, self-professed ‘computer geeks’, successfully signed up for Obamacare’ the press release intoned. “With successes such as these, we can be assured that the system works”

“We tackled the first page in less than 5 hours” said a proud Barty. “While we were waiting for a live person on the ‘help line’ we just plowed ahead and were able to enter all of our names.

“I’m glad we were able to stay home that week and tackle this as a family. It was easier than the entrance exam for Stanford” mentioned Georgette.
It was seen as a victory for the administration, who had been touting the ease of enrollment.

“When we look back on these minor glitches in a few years we’ll bury the experience in the back of our mind like a dog bite or the day we got downsized” said a White house spokesperson, “Think of it as a bad dream from which we’ll wake up.”

Some congressional Republicans have called for Sebelius to resign, leave the country and settle in Malawi where she can get ‘quality care’.
Open enrollment lasts until March 31, but users need to sign up for coverage by Dec. 15 for plans that start on Jan. 1 when they’ll be aided by Federal employees who have been drinking all through the holidays to get the experience out of their heads.