Obamacare: Health plan enrollment surges in Iowa, Nebraska

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20140114/LIVEWELL26/140119389/1685#obamacare-health-plan-enrollment-surges-in-iowa-nebraska

By Joseph Morton / World-Herald Bureau
January 14, 2014

WASHINGTON — A surge of Nebraskans and Iowans enrolled in health insurance plans through the new marketplaces last month, in keeping with national trends, according to a report released Monday.

In Nebraska, 14,464 people had enrolled in a plan by the end of December. That's more than seven times as many as the 1,965 Nebraskans who had enrolled through the end of November.

Across the river in Iowa, 7,475 had enrolled, nearly 10 times the 757 reported in November. Nationally, the number of Americans who had enrolled in a plan went from 364,682 to more than 2.1 million.

Obama administration officials trumpeted the latest numbers as evidence that the law is starting to work as intended after a debacle of a rollout. Many people had trouble navigating the balky website that served as a portal for signing up in most states.

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