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November 12, 2013

Report: Fewer Than 50,000 Enrolled on Obamacare Site 
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The Wall Street Journal reports fewer than 50,000 people had
successfully enrolled in private health insurance through the new
federal website as of last week, a month after it launched. That is a
tenth of the Obama administration's estimated target of 500,000
enrollees for the month of October. The administration had estimated
seven million people would enroll before the deadline at the end of
March, but the site has been beset by technical failures. The government
has not released official enrollment figures, merely confirming that
roughly 700,000 people have completed applications across all 50 states
using both federal and state-run websites. A separate tally of 12 of the
14 states running their own exchanges found roughly 49,000 enrollees.

 

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