Obamacare architects, mistakenly, assumed that
most states would opt to run their own marketplaces, with federal officials
running only a few. Unfortunately,
pretty much “any state with a Republican
governor or Republican legislative control said no”, adding to the
administrative burden on the HHS website. (See sources below for names of governors and states.)
Furthermore, many of the states with Republican-led governments declining
to run their own websites also refused Obamacare funding to expand the joint federal-state
Medicaid program, as the new law allows. (See sources below for names of governors and states.)
Despite healthcare.gov website
malfunctions and Republican-governed
states’ refusal to accept Affordable Health Care Act dollars for
Medicaid expansion or accepting Obamacare dollars to set up state-run exchanges, the Obamacare roll
out glass can be viewed as half full in
several states despite the media hype to the contrary:
According to the sources listed
below:
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- Between 40,000 and 50,000 uninsured Americans signed up for health care coverage in the 36 states where the federal government is running the Obamacare exchanges.
- More than 500,000 have signed up for insurance overall (including states with their own exchanges.).
- People are enrolling despite an error-ridden website.
- A number of states that use their own systems, including California, are on track to hit enrollment targets for 2014 because of a sharp increase in November, according to state officials
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- Several other states, including Connecticut and Kentucky are outpacing their enrollment estimates,
- State tracking figures indicate about 180,000 persons completed applications for insurance and, of those, 50,000 have enrolled
- Fourteen states and the District of Columbia, covering about one-third of the nation’s population, are operating their own Obamacare marketplaces and have their own enrollment websites.
- In Minnesota, enrollment in the second half of October ran at triple the rate of the first half
- Washington state is on track to easily exceed its October enrollment figure
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- California and New York continues to show growth in their enrollment numbers
- Washington has enrolled more than 40,000 state residents in the expanded Medicaid program
- Kentucky processed 10,766 applications for health coverage in its first day
- 30,830 people enrolled in the California state exchange during its first month of operation.
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