Affordable Care enrollments pick up steam

[TomCADem]

Source: CNN

Obamacare might be off to a slow start but it's starting to pick up steam, at least in states that are not using the beleaguered HealthCare.gov website.

For the past month, CNN has conducted a state-by-state survey to determine enrollment in the new insurance plans. As of Tuesday afternoon, at least 133,257 people had chosen new insurance plans in the 14 states with their own signup apparatuses. Nearly half of them were enrolled in the past two weeks.

One of the biggest jumps is in California. Through November 2, 35,364 Californians had selected private plans through the new insurance marketplace. Less than two weeks later, the number was up to 59,000. The state with the second-highest enrollment is New York, where at least 24,509 have selected a plan. The next highest enrollments are in Washington state, Kentucky and Connecticut.

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The trends are likely to come into sharper focus in the next several weeks. Most experts expect the pace of enrollment to accelerate, as the HealthCare.gov website starts to function better and potential customers have more of a chance to explore their options.

Read more: http://www.local10.com/thats-life/health/health-care-reform/affordable-care-enrollments-pick-up-steam/-/21925634/23057624/-/4qah7y/-/index.html

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CNN state by state survey confirms an earlier report by the LA Times that enrollments are beginning to surge.

[Skittles]

1. here we go

[TomCADem]

2. This ignores the corporate MSM right wing multiplier.

Just like the media could amplify the coverage of one person wearing tea bags while ignoring thousands attending a nearby immigration rally, watch as the media ignores thousands of folks obtaining coverage for the first time, and highlighting the same example of an ACA "failure."

[Skittles]

3. repukes DESPERATELY do not want ACA to succeed

they and their corporate media have pulled ALL the stops to prevent its success so any kind of good news regarding ACA must give them a case of the vapors

[BlueStreak]

4. So that's about 200,000 a couple of weeks ago, not counting Medicaid?

It seems very likely that there will be around a million signed up by December 15, enabling them to start their coverage on January 1.

Everybody needs to chill a little. The worm will turn. We've had a bad week of polls. But we have done exceptionally well in the actual elections that have happened recently, Democrats have gained ground and teabaggers have been thrashed by more moderate Republicans. There aren't any more key elections for many months. The pendulum will swing around for us.

By the end of open enrollment, healthcare.gov will be a non-issue. There will still be a lot of people who don't get insurance in 2014. And we can use that in the elections next November. After all, Obama has said all along that the law isn't perfect and he is open to constructive improvements. Well, guess what? By November we should be able to identify some very specific things that need to be improved in order for the law to serve all Americans well.

Dems need to go find their spines. They need to run ON this issue in November. If they run AWAY from it, they are dead.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

5. Good.

[quadrature]

6. Obama says 100 million have enrolled ...

at that rate,
it won't take long to
enroll the whole country

[jamzrockz]

7. Care to share a link

that shows Obama said 100m has enrolled for ACA? That makes no sense for him to say that when less than 100m americans are uninsured.

[quadrature]

9. try this link ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509715/Obama-flubs-health-care-conference-community-organizers-More-100-million-Americans-successfully-enrolled.html


........................
maybe he meant 100 thousand.
or maybe 100.

[jamzrockz]

10. Maybe?

You know he misspoke, you linked to the website where practically everybody in the comment section were lambasting him for saying million instead of thousand. It is low of you to post that nonsense here on DU.

[bigdarryl]

8. Don't laugh by the time he leaves office it will be that amount

[JDPriestly]

12. News on California's enrollments -- yesterday -- November 20, 2013

A number of states that use their own systems, including California, are on track to hit enrollment targets for 2014 because of a sharp increase in November, according to state officials.

"What we are seeing is incredible momentum," said Peter Lee, director of Covered California, the nation's largest state insurance marketplace, which accounted for a third of all enrollments nationally in October. California — which enrolled about 31,000 people in health plans last month — nearly doubled that in the first two weeks of this month.

Several other states, including Connecticut and Kentucky, are outpacing their enrollment estimates, even as states that depend on the federal website lag far behind. In Minnesota, enrollment in the second half of October ran at triple the rate of the first half, officials said. Washington state is also on track to easily exceed its October enrollment figure, officials said.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obamacare-increase-20131119,0,6486939.story

Obamacare will succeed. Republicans don't know what they are talking about. (As usual.)