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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

RomneyCare Had Super Slow Enrollment


RomneyCare Works
(And Massachusetts Likes It!)

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The White House says Obamacare will be similar. "In keeping with that theme, Simas told reporters that the event will likely highlight enrollment trends during the Massachusetts' law's first year: Just 123 people signed up during the Bay State's first month of open enrollment. By contrast, 20 percent of the first year's 36,000 enrollees purchased coverage in the last month before an individual mandate penalty kicked in..."The fact that people aren't signed up now is not at all interesting or important," Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Jon Gruber said. "The success of health care reform has to be measured in months and years, not days and weeks."" Sarah Kliff in The Washington Post.



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