Obama: 500,000 Obamacare Enrollees So Far In December
Source: TPM
DYLAN SCOTT – DECEMBER 20, 2013, 2:34 PM EST
President Barack Obama said Friday that more than 500,000 people have enrolled in health coverage through HealthCare.gov in the first three weeks of December.
That would put the total number of enrollments at more than 1 million, senior administration officials noted to TPM, when added to the reported enrollments on the federal and state websites in October and November.
The December enrollment would mark a significant increase since the administration declared the website fixed: 137,000 people signed up through HealthCare.gov in October and November combined.
The new numbers for HealthCare.gov, which serves 36 states, comes after reports of accelerating enrollment at some of the 15 state-run marketplaces. California's marketplace, for example, reported 50,000 in three days this week. Obama offered the enrollment figure at his end-of-the-year press conference. No official enrollment report has been released.
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Obama On Obamacare Rollout: 'We Screwed It Up'
DYLAN SCOTT – DECEMBER 20, 2013, 2:52 PM EST
President Barack Obama acknowledged again Friday that the White House had fumbled Obamacare's rollout in its early days.
"When it came to the health care rollout, even though I was meeting every other week or every three weeks with folks and emphasizing how important it was that consumers had a good experience and easy experience in getting the information they need and knowing what the choices and options were for them to be able to get high quality affordable health care," Obama said, "the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, first six weeks in a way that was at all acceptable."
"And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up."
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