Kathleen Sebelius finally testified in front of Congress, and her entire testimony was “Oops.  My bad.  We’ll fix it.  And no, I have no idea how many people have signed up.”

The partial answer to that, as finally discovered by the media, is that a whopping total of SIX people managed to sign up on October 1st.  By the end of October 2nd, that number had risen to…. wait for it… 248 people.

This is not what success looks like.  The administration says they will be releasing numbers later this month.  We’ll see if that actually happens.

No wonder Republican state senator Brian Kelsey of Tennessee thought this was a perfectly suitable present for Secretary Sebelius:

Website troubles aside, the flood of personal anecdotes and cancellation letters are also finally being acknowledged by the mainstream media, including President Obama’s lie (yes, a lie is a lie, be it either by omission or commission) that if you liked your health plan, you could keep your health plan.  No matter how his lackeys are now trying to spin those words, there is no denying that the average American took “If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.  Period” at face value, and are now paying for their belief in the president’s words.

Welcome to MyCancellation.com, where the average American can send in pictures of their health insurance cancellation letters to be posted on a Tumblr page for all to see.  These are real people, who are going be doing some real suffering.  How many people?  NBC estimated, through their sources, that somewhere between 50 and 75 percent of the 14 million people who currently have individual health insurance are going to lose their plans, and the administration knew that years ago.

To put that in perspective, the administration knew that the LOW estimate kicked at least 7 million people off their insurance plans.

President Obama won the 2012 election with just under 5 million votes.

The current spin from the administration’s sycophants is that “well, these plans were terrible!  What you will get is better!  You shouldn’t have such a non-compliant plan!”

Enter the tragic story of Edie Littlefield Sundby, who wrote an opinion piece about her fight against stage 4 gallbladder cancer… and how she is losing her insurance under Obamacare.  GOOD insurance.  Insurance that she made SURE covered her chosen doctors, for both her primary care and to fight her cancer.  Now, even though she was perfectly satisfied with her insurance plan, she is going to lose it, lose part of her care (depending on what choice she pursues for insurance, because no option is comparable to what she had), and may possibly lose her life.  The gut-wrenching truth is summed up at the end of her op-ed:

What happened to the president’s promise, “You can keep your health plan”? Or to the promise that “You can keep your doctor”? Thanks to the law, I have been forced to give up a world-class health plan. The exchange would force me to give up a world-class physician.

For a cancer patient, medical coverage is a matter of life and death. Take away people’s ability to control their medical-coverage choices and they may die. I guess that’s a highly effective way to control medical costs. Perhaps that’s the point.

How many millions of Edie Littlefield Sundby’s are out there, getting those cancellation letters, and facing a Hobson’s Choice of life or death?

And even if it isn’t life or death, it might be life or your wallet, as the sticker shock begins to sink in.

Only time will tell how this affects the economy, the electorate, the polls, and YOU.  Be prepared for the news to not be good.  The American people are not stupid.  They may not pay attention when events and scandals don’t affect them personally.  But Obamacare IS affecting everyone personally – if not you, then your parents, another family member, your neighbor, your co-worker.  And when policies and events hit people in the wallet, they pay attention.

The sleeping majority of Americans, drugged on reality TV and the soap opera of Facebook, may finally be waking up.