It is impossible to make this up, yet…
Just to illustrate how desperate the Obama administration is to sign up as much people for Obamacare as possible, the Weekly Standard tells the story of how Vice President Joe Biden tried to recruit a visitor from Canada.
"'Vice President Biden moving in close to sell the Affordable Care Act to a young woman outside Butterfield's Pancake House in Scottsdale,' says the local reporter.
"Biden told the young Canadian: 'We gotta make sure everybody young person signs up for health care. It's affordable. You can get subsidies to do it. And it's in your interest. And if you don't even want to do it for yourself. do it for your parents, give 'em peace of mind.'
"The local reporter though took the time to find out a little bit about the woman the vice president pitched. "Turns out that woman is not even a U.S. resident. She's visiting from Canada," says the reporter.
"'I just didn't know if I should just say, I'm sorry--Canadian, don't know if I can help you out,' says the Canadian woman. 'He's for it, I'm for it. And I hope it works out here.'"
This can be chalked up to yet another goofy incident caused by poor old Joe's mal-adroitness, the sort of thing that has caused a balm of laughter as the Obama regime grinds away at American power and spirit. But Biden trying to sell a Canadian, who is already afflicted with one version of socialist health care, with America's version is revealing.
To put it simply, the government is not signing up enough people to make Obamacare sustainable. The people who are signing up are finding out that it offers inferior care at sky high prices. Biden's trying to get a foreigner to sign up was obviously a goof, but one would not be surprised if the administration were found to be trying to pad the Obamacare rolls by duping non Americans. It may be the last ditch attempt to avoid disaster.