"AP sources: 476,000 Obamacare applications filed"

[applegrove]

AP sources: 476,000 Obamacare applications filed

By JULIE PACE at AP

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-sources-476000-obamacare-applications-filed

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President Barack Obama's signature legislation.

However, the officials continue to refuse to say how many people have actually enrolled in the insurance markets. Without enrollment figures, it's unclear whether the program is on track to reach the 7 million people projecting by the Congressional Budget Office to gain coverage during the six-month sign-up period.

Obama's advisers say the president has been frustrated by the flawed rollout. During one of his daily health care briefings last week, he told advisers assembled in the Oval Office that the administration had to own up to the fact that there were no excuses for not having the website ready to operate as promised.

The president is expected to address the problems on Monday during a health care event at the White House. Cabinet members and other top administration officials will also be traveling around the country in the coming weeks to encourage sign-ups in areas with the highest population of uninsured people.



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[tillikum]

1. 36,000 enrolled as of oct 5

[stevenleser]

2. So the numbers in the OP would seem to suggest that massive improvements were made since Oct. 5

We seem to be on the right track.

[tillikum]

4. i suppose that depends on how many are currently enrolled

otherwise you wouldn't know.

[Decaffeinated]

6. I think the article is stating a difference between applied and enrolled...

Maybe not...

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. thanks for the stats

[Nine]

5. The administration calls those numbers inaccurate.

In any case, who cares now what the figures looked like five days after launching? As Krugman said,

"First, let me say a word about the underlying irrelevance of startup troubles for new government programs.

Political reporting in America, especially but not only on TV, tends to be focused on the play-by-play. Who won today’s news cycle? And, to be fair, this sort of thing may matter during the final days of an election.

But Obamacare isn’t up for a popular referendum, or a re-vote of any kind. It’s the law, and it’s going into effect. Its future will depend on how it works over the next few years, not the next few weeks."