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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

So Far, Obamacare Roll-Out 4 Times As Successful As RomneyCare Roll-Out

Massachusetts residents happy with RomneyCare

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It's not quite time to freak out over Obamacare's enrollment number. "Some of this apparent calm could simply be the deliberate optimism of the health care law's advocates. But, putting aside any such bias, we can still make a case that the health law's debut is not a complete disaster. First, we can compare the rollout to that of the Massachusetts health care law, which had 123 enrollees sign up during the first month of coverage. That ended up accounting for 0.3 percent of first-year enrollment. If we tally up 40,000 enrollees in the federal marketplace --and another 49,000 in the state exchanges, as counted by consulting firm Avalere Health --that works out to about 1.2 percent of the 7 million people the Congressional Budget Office has projected will sign up on the exchange in 2014." Sarah Kliff in The Washington Post




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