Huge Surge in Obamacare Enrollment Reported

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Huge Surge in Obamacare Enrollment Reported

About 1.8 million people enrolled in new individual health plans in December
By Kate Pickert


As federal officials predicted, the flood of Americans trying to sign up for health insurance by the end of 2013 ended in a tidal wave. About 1.8 million people enrolled in new individual health plans through the law in December, bringing new enrollments through Dec. 28 to about 2.2 million.

The number of signups through HealthCare.gov, the federal exchange web site that has been hobbled by technical difficulties, peaked toward the end of the year, according to a report released Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services. The number of Americans who selected plans through the federal exchange in December was seven times higher than those who signed up in October and November combined, according to HHS.

On a call with reporters Monday, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said HealthCare.gov is now “working smoothly” and that the federal government was encouraged by the late surge. “Among young adults, the momentum was particularly strong,” she said. According to HHS, 30 percent of those who signed up for individual market health plans under Obamacare in 2013 were 34 or younger.

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[spanone]

1. ....and the mainstream media is all over this story...........................not

k&r....

[Cha]

3. The US Corporate mediawhore$ have their Check list..

And, that includes burying anything that smacks of good news about Obamacare/ACA.

[spanone]

5. it would really be funny if it were not true!!

hey Cha!!!!!

[Cha]

6. Hey spanone!

[spanone]

7. ahhhh-men

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10. Hey Cha

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12. Benghazi!!!!!

[MFM008]

2. There will be more

we are waiting for his W2 form for his exact income because he had 2 jobs last year. Then we sign him up, my sister works 30 hours a week andonly qualifies for medicaid!
No one has full time.
There will be a huge surge as the deadline approachs.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. nobody could have anticipated that uninsured people would sign up for

insurance they could afford if it were made available to them.

However, if only the Obama administration had outsourced development of the web site to private enterprise, the hiccups on the roll out could have been avoided.

Oh wait....

[wyldwolf]

8. I read your title as "HOW surge in Obamacare Enrollment Reported"

... and was hoping for an article by someone calling the media into account for how the surge has been reported - lines like "Obamacare signups have fallen way short of original projections" and other such misinformation like that.

[DeeBunker]

9. Back in the '60s '70s,

Back in the '60s '70s, the cost of living was not as controlled by the wall st driven & corporate gov prostitue state that we now all endure, (like Ws-Warmonger Bush Jr.s "Enduring Freedom&quot . Thus, the 'Protection Racketter's' Business (they call Insurance Industry), was not crucial back then.
I remember when ordinary people had time to do other things besides working all the time to make simple ends meet. Though the country produces more than ever before through automation, all we slaves must nevertheless work constatly to please the slave master corporate gov.
You raise min wages, and the gov lets the corps capitolize on the extra cash flow, while the gov whore grabs a larger spot in taxes for increased wages, you can't win!
They need to make all the slaves buy into their protection rackett ins crap in part to keep the cost of living HIGH... What else is new, get a clue, ur gettin Screwed!

Don't forget the budget deficit, Hundreds of Billions Intrest constantly paid to some fu**ers paid by the working slaves like every fu**ing thing else. Get rid of the Insurance Corps and the Fed Resrv, we can print our own money w/o em ripoffs!!

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11. ACA Signup Success Stories

1. https://www.facebook.com/acasuccessstories

2. https://www.facebook.com/acasignupsuccessstories

3. https://www.facebook.com/ilikeobamacare

4. https://twitter.com/ACASuccessStory

5. http://acasignups.net

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13. kick

nt

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14. Obamacare is Succeeding: 9 Million Have Registered For Health Insurance

by Salvatore Aversa
January 15, 2014

Several weeks ago, OccupyDemocrats.com reported that, despite its rocky launch, it was very well possible that the Affordable Care Act would reach the CBO’s estimate of 7 million people signing up for health insurance coverage. At the time, numbers were still uncertain because healthcare.gov only had one solid month of being fully operational. The 7 million number was expected to be reached by March. Today, it was reported that 9 million people have signed up for coverage, blowing away the expert’s estimates.

More than half of the almost 2.2 million people who bought health insurance on federal and state exchanges in the past three months are older than 45, records released Monday show.

Almost 1.2 million people have enrolled in private insurance through the federal health care exchange from Oct. 1 to Dec. 28, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, and more than 1 million signed up in December alone.

Another 956,000 people have signed up for private insurance through state-based exchanges between Oct. 1 and Dec. 28, HHS records show.

About 55% of the early enrollees, Sebelius and other officials said, are between the ages of 45 and 64, an older group of people that often drive up health care costs.

Julie Bataille, spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said 3.9 million people have signed up for Medicaid directly through the states, and that some of those enrollments are renewals. Combined with the young people still covered with their parents, that comes to 9 million people enrolled in private plans or Medicaid who may not have had the coverage before the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act.

read more: http://www.occupydemocrats.com/obamacare-is-succeeding-9-million-have-registered-for-health-insurance/