106K sign up for Obamacare

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HHS reports 106,000 have picked health plans through ObamaCare exchanges | Fox News

HHS reports 106,000 have picked health plans through ObamaCare exchanges

Published November 13, 2013 •
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The Department of Health and Human Services reported Wednesday that more than 100,000 people have selected a health care plan through the ObamaCare exchanges -- a number that, likely due to widespread website failures, falls far short of the administration's goal.


The administration had originally hoped to sign up a half-million people in the first month of open enrollment. Now more than six weeks into the troubled launch of HealthCare.gov and other state-based exchanges, HHS announced Wednesday that 106,185 people had selected a plan as of Nov. 2.

The announcement had been highly anticipated, as lawmakers have been pressing the administration for weeks on official figures.

But even the statistic revealed on Wednesday might be inflated.

The administration said the figure counts all those who have selected a health care plan from state and federal exchanges, even if they haven't yet paid a premium on those plans.

One source explained to Fox News that no one is really "enrolled" until the insurance company knows about it.

Still, the numbers announced Wednesday stand as the most definitive account to date from the administration of how many people have been able to wade through the problem-plagued website and pick a plan.

The administration says a total of 975,407 applied for coverage and received an eligibility determination, but have not yet selected a plan. In addition to the 106,185 who have selected a plan, another 396,261 have been determined as eligible for Medicaid or a similar government program for children.

So almost 4 times as many people have signed up for Free HC VS paying for it. Amazing.

And of that 106K what percentage had preexisting conditions ? And how many of them were the target group of young workers who can afford HC? They are the ones that need to sign up in massive numbers ( 18 Million) in order to make the plan close to viable.

[Cybercowboy]

That 104k counts people who have just placed their plan in the shopping cart. They haven't bought anything. Real number probably closer to half that.

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by Cybercowboy

That 104k counts people who have just placed their plan in the shopping cart. They haven't bought anything. Real number probably closer to half that.

Good point. They got to the end and said "DAMN" thats expensive. Then logged off.

[Y2Kvert4me]

5 million cancelled, 100k enrolled.

Definitely moving in the right direction!

[Loco Vette]

That's what happens when a community organizer actually has to DO something.

[Cybercowboy]

Oh, now we find out that less than 27,000 are from the HealthCare.gov website.

And that's with the inflated counting method! Sheez, what a cluster.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Cybercowboy

That 104k counts people who have just placed their plan in the shopping cart. They haven't bought anything. Real number probably closer to half that.

I placed a c-7 in the shopping cart. I just didn't hit "buy it now" because I didn't want to spend that much money right now. Probably the same thing a lot of those 104,--- "buyers" did.

[Admiral Blue]

Right, but even Chevy/GM do not count that as a sale!

[Cybercowboy]

Check out the headline on Drudge this morning.

Thousands of doctors dropping out of medical plans. Just exactly as predicted.

[Loco Vette]

Originally Posted by Cybercowboy

Check out the headline on Drudge this morning.

Thousands of doctors dropping out of medical plans. Just exactly as predicted.

Glad I bailed 5 years ago!