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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 02:03 AM Dec 2013

States' numbers will tell HealthCare.gov's story

Source: USA Today

The states seeing success are bragging about their accomplishments, while at the same time carefully edging around commenting about the problems at the federal site. But they've also been pretty vocal about the problems the state websites faced, too.

"We opened on Oct. 1, and we had an overwhelming volume," said Donna Frescatore, executive director of the New York state health exchange. "In the next three to four days, we quadrupled the capacity of the system, but that was something we planned for."

As of Tuesday, New York's enrollment numbers showed 76,177 had enrolled in a health plan, up from 48,162 on Nov. 12. And 257,414 people had completed their exchange applications, up from 197,011.

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Tuesday, California said enrollment applications grew from 334,027 as of Nov. 16 to 385,556 as of Nov. 23. Kentucky announced it would add an 80% increase in capacity by Dec. 2, and that more than 60,000 people had enrolled in coverage by Nov. 26. In Washington, more than 150,000 have started applications.


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/30/obamacare-website-glitches-deadline/3790335/

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States' numbers will tell HealthCare.gov's story (Original Post) TomCADem Dec 2013 OP
And if anyone living in a rethug run state that did not join the program they need to blame their jwirr Dec 2013 #1
thanks marvinsacco Feb 2014 #2

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
1. And if anyone living in a rethug run state that did not join the program they need to blame their
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 12:40 PM
Dec 2013

own governor because one of the biggest reasons that it did not work in the first place was because they ACA site was not set up to handle the 39 states that were not cooperating. Get after your governor and let him/her know that you are angry.

marvinsacco

(33 posts)
2. thanks
Tue Feb 25, 2014, 02:55 PM
Feb 2014
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