"U.S. administration says Obamacare enrollment tops 5 million"

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U.S. administration says Obamacare enrollment tops 5 million

By David Morgan at Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/17/us-usa-healthcare-enrollment-idUSBREA2G1O520140317

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(Reuters) - More than 5 million people have enrolled in private health insurance under the law known as Obamacare since open enrollment began on October 1, the U.S. administration said on Monday.

With the March 31 enrollment deadline only two weeks away, a top administration official reported a big upswing in public interest in subsidized health insurance and said traffic on the federal website HealthCare.gov reached 1 million visitors over the weekend.

"The last several days have been the busiest since December," Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a government blog posting that announced the new total.

The 5 million enrollee total marked an increase of at least 800,000 people since March 1, indicating that total enrollment could approach the 6 million figure estimated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office if enrollment surges in the final weeks as administration officials have predicted.




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[stevenleser]

1. K&R, and support for the law keeps rising. nt