Sebelius: Early enrollment on Healthcare.gov will be low

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A team of tech whizzes working through nights and weekends to fix the troubled health insurance marketplace website will be hard-pressed to finish repairs as promised by the end of November, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday.

"We are not where we need to be," Sebelius told a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee. "It is a pretty aggressive schedule to get to the end of the punch list by the end of November."

As a result, not very many people have been able to sign up yet. "I can tell you our early enrollment numbers will be very low," Sebelius said. HHS has promised to release its first numbers next week on how many people have bought health insurance on the site.

She said "a couple of hundred functional fixes" had been identified. But Sebelius again rejected the idea of shutting down the website to fix it for good, saying the site can be repaired while it's live.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/sebelius-faces-more-questions-health-law-8C11542596

[Heather MC]

1. Ok this is not like buying a car. People need time to review the plans

They have until March 1st why does it matter what the numbers r now except to critiques who want to bitch and moan, and do nothing to help

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2. If you had a health insurance plan that has been canceled, open enrollment ends December 7

You have to either re-enroll directly with the insurance company or through the marketplace. If your income is less than 4 times poverty level, you have to use the marketplace to get the subsidy. If you wait until after December 7, your coverage will lapse 1/1/14.

[Heather MC]

3. OIC

Very Confusing.

It's a new If this then that revelation everyday