3-day HealthCare.gov enrollment hits 56,000
Source: Washington Post
President Obama urged a group of young activists Wednesday not to give up on promoting his signature health-care law, as enrollment picked up on HealthCare.gov.
Roughly 27,000 Americans signed up for insurance on the federal exchange on Tuesday, according to internal figures, bringing the site’s three-day enrollment total to 56,000. That figure is more than double the number who enrolled online in the entire month of October, which was almost 27,000.
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The three-day total of 56,000 enrollees, while short of the pace needed to reach the administration’s target of 7 million by March 31, shows that the federal health insurance marketplace is working much more smoothly than it was at its Oct. 1 launch.
Before last weekend, the previous daily high was more than 9,600 on Nov. 26, according to another government official who declined to be identified in order to discuss the site’s operations
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-urges-on-young-activists-as-healthcaregov-enrollment-grows/2013/12/04/75211738-5d1e-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html
To put it into context, the ACA website has enrolled more people in the last three days then the entire month of October. This may explain why even Ted Cruz has begun to admit that the website will be fixed sooner or later even though he still opposes the law.
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