Obamacare enrollment: the December deluge continues.

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ACASignups: Damn, We're GOOD!

by Brainwrap .

Politico, less than an hour ago:

More than one million Americans signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act during the first three weeks of December, including 500,000 through the federal exchange, President Barack Obama announced Friday.

Official enrollments 10/1 - 11/30: 364,682

"Over 1 Million" 12/01 - 12/20: at least 1,000,001

Total: 1,364,683

ACASignups.net as of this morning: 1,349,562

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Meanwhile, check out the news on Medicaid (which has been spottier/harder to come by, even though the numbers are already higher):

Nearly 3.9M Qualify for Medicaid Under Health Law

The Obama administration says nearly 3.9 million people have qualified for coverage through the health care law's Medicaid expansion.

The numbers released Friday cover the period from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 and underscore a pattern of Medicaid outpacing the law's expansion of private insurance.

The spreadsheet had the Medicaid/SCHIP expansion number as just over 2 million. There's been another 1.9 million that hasn't made the news until just now.

That's right. 1.365M + 3.9M = 5.265 million people total.

And according to the Medicaid article, that's only through Nov. 30. Since the HHS report only lists the 11/30 Medicaid number as 803,000, that means that the "mass enrollments" noted in the orange cells on the spreadsheet must not only be correct, but there must be a bunch more like that that I'm not aware of as well.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/20/1264277/-ACASignups-Damn-We-re-GOOD

Note: "including 500,000 through the federal exchange"

"If November had an Obamacare surge, consider this the December deluge."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024198258

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1. K&R

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2. Nearly Four Million Low-Income Americans Now Have Health Coverage Under Obamacare

Nearly Four Million Low-Income Americans Now Have Health Coverage Under Obamacare

By Sy Mukherjee

About 1.7 million poor Americans looking for health coverage were deemed eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in November, according to new government data released on Friday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also revised previous estimates that about 1.5 million people qualified for Medicaid or CHIP in October up to 2.1 million. All told, that means that just under four million low-income Americans now have access to public health insurance.

CMS noted that Medicaid and CHIP applications have been spiking since Obamacare’s open enrollment season began in October. In states that expanded Medicaid, applications soared by 15 percent in October compared to the previous three months. Strikingly, applications have been on the rise even in states that didn’t expand Medicaid, likely because intense media coverage of the health law rollout is bringing people who didn’t know they qualified for public insurance out of the woodwork.

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/20/3097351/medicaid-enrollment-obamacare/

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3. THANKS OBAMA!

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8. : ) n/t

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9. Every chance I get, I remind people that it is called Obamacare.

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4. Obamacare!

Signed sealed and Delivering!

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5. We all wait till the last minute

Don't we? Thanks PS.

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6. Yes.

You're welcome.

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7. K & R