Los Angeles Times: Obamacare: 106,000 Signed Up For Health Coverage So Far, Officials Say
Enrollment has been particularly weak in the 36 states whose new insurance marketplaces are being run by the federal government. ... Despite the relatively low enrollment numbers, administration officials stressed Wednesday that consumer interest in health insurance appears strong. Nationwide, nearly 1.1 million people have been deemed eligible to get insurance through one of the new marketplaces, according to applications that have been submitted by consumers, the Department of Health and Human Services reported. An additional 396,000 people have been deemed eligible for the government’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program, officials reported (Levey, 11/13).
Huffington Post: Obamacare Enrollment Numbers Fall Far Short Of Target
Technical problems besieging HealthCare.gov, the federal online portal for insurance in more than 30 states, and the websites for several state-run marketplaces have hampered sign-up and threaten to derail President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement. The Obama administration is far from meeting the Congressional Budget Office's projection of enrolling 7 million people into private insurance and 9 million people into Medicaid by March 31. The disappointing results of the first phase of Affordable Care Act enrollment underscore the fragility of the new marketplaces and the urgent need for the Obama administration to get HealthCare.gov reliably functioning by the end of this month. The coverage of millions of people whose plans are being eliminated hangs in the balance, as does the prospect of fulfilling the promise of reducing the ranks of the 48 million Americans who have no health insurance (Young, 11/13).
CBS News: HHS: At least 106,185 Enrolled In Obamacare So Far
Some state-run Obamacare websites have, so far, run more smoothly than HealthCare.gov, which may be reflected in the enrollment numbers: Of the 106,185 people who signed up in the first month, three quarters of them signed up through state-based programs. Only 26,794 signed up on the federal website. The administration has promised to have HealthCare.gov running smoothly for the vast majority of users by the end of the month. Yet as the technical problems persist, members of Congress are growing increasingly concerned about people who are being dropped from their current insurance plans and may have problems enrolling in new ones (Condon, 11/13).
Fox News: HHS Reports 106,000 Have Picked Health Plans Through ObamaCare Exchanges
The administration had originally hoped to sign up a half-million people in the first month of open enrollment. Now more than six weeks into the troubled launch of HealthCare.gov and other state-based exchanges, HHS announced Wednesday that 106,185 people had selected a plan as of Nov. 2. The announcement had been highly anticipated, as lawmakers have been pressing the administration for weeks on official figures. But even the statistic revealed on Wednesday might be inflated. The administration said the figure counts all those who have selected a health care plan from state and federal exchanges, even if they haven't yet paid a premium on those plans (11/13).
NBC News: 26,000 Signed Up Through Federal Obamacare Website In First Month, Administration Says
The White House had hoped half a million people would have signed up in the first month the site was active. The Congressional Budget Office had projected that 7 million people would sign up for private health insurance on the exchange and that another 9 million would get Medicaid coverage. The new numbers indicate that the 500,000 projection may not be completely off. "Additionally, 396,261 Americans have been assessed or determined eligible for Medicaid or CHIP (the Children’s Health Insurance Program)," HHS said in a statement (Fox, 11/13).
ABC News: Only 106,185 Enroll In Health Insurance Nationwide Using Marketplaces
The total represents 1.5 percent of the estimated number of enrollees that should sign up for health insurance using the websites by the March 31 deadline, according to the Department of Health and Human Services report (Phillip, 11/13).
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