Whoopsie! Looks like #Obamacare may be a success after all.

[JaneyVee]

Number of completed applications through the marketplace: 846,184
Total number of individuals included in completed marketplace applications: 1,509,883
Number of individuals determined eligible to enroll in marketplace: 1,081,592
Number of individuals who have already selected a plan: 106,185

This doesn't figure in the over 500,000+ who have enrolled in Medicaid.

These figures are ONLY for Oct.1st - Nov.2nd

The rest: http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/183955385

[itsrobert]

1. I do dental in the fed employees system

There is a like 45 days every year to shop plans. I look at the different plans and sometimes I don't make a decision unit a couple hours before the deadline. Many people will be doing this with healthcare.gov and the state websites. It's called shopping, and Americans are good at that.

[JaneyVee]

2. Yup, the document even notes Massachusetts law comparing enrollment

Seems most would wait closer to the deadline being choosing. Hopefully the website is fully functional by then.

[CTyankee]

3. Yep. Hubby is in charge of looking at our Medicare supplemental plan with AARP.

We've been learning stuff as we go along. For instance, I need less coverage than he does but the plans offer a better deal if each partner have different health insurance needs. Since we are on Medicare as our primary care insurance provider, it may be a bit different...

[geek tragedy]

5. What percent of Americans have finished their holiday shopping? nt

[bluestate10]

6. I think once the word is out that the ACA website is fixed people will sign up

in big numbers all the way through December. The December numbers should come out massive. Word of mouth should make November numbers big also, in particular once people see that website problems are being fixed and they can migrate the ACA site without tearing their hair out.

[Travis_0004]

4. The projection was 500,000, so I would not call it a sucess.

The numbers were about 1/5th of the White House projected october should be.

I would not consider that a success.

[bluestate10]

8. 500,000 alone have applied for Medicare. Close to 1 million have shopped the ACA.

106,000+ have already signed up. The numbers imply big success, in particular the government has until something like the end of the first quarter on next year to get to it's 7 million target. The already have 1,500,000+ quality queries or outright sign-ups is 21% of the ultimate goal during the first month with the website having enormous problems. I would only sys there is concern if the November numbers don't match or exceed the October numbers.

[JimDandy]

7. The news just reported that only about 27,000 people signed up

Something is wrong somewhere. I think the higher figure is for those who signed up on the state run sites.

[frazzled]

9. Obamacare = The federal exchange plus all state exchanges

You can't separate out the states. There really wasn't supposed to be much of a federal exchange--but 36 Republican states decided they didn't feel like operating their own exchanges. The numbers in the OP correspond to what was reported today in the Washington Post, with a bit more detail:

1. There have been 846,184 applications completed. Because many of these applications are for families, they cover 1,509,883 people. But only 106,185 have chosen an actual plan.

2. It's not quite right to say 106,856 have actually bought a plan. The White House is also counting people who have placed a plan in their shopping cart but haven't yet paid.

3. Ten percent of people who have been determined eligible to enroll have actually done so. The rate is higher in state-based marketplaces (21 percent) than in those run by the federal government (4 percent).

4. About 75 percent of the sign-ups come from the 14 state-based marketplaces. Those marketplaces have had about 79,000 people sign up, compared with the 27,000 people who have purchased coverage in the federal marketplace.

5. California's enrollment accounts for a full third of all sign-ups. The state has had just over 35,000 people sign up.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/13/nine-key-facts-about-obamacares-enrollment-numbers/?wpisrc=nl_wnkpm

[JimDandy]

11. Thanks. That is a good explanation. n/t

[bluestate10]

10. The ACA is the ACA regardless of whether the sign-ups were in states with Exchanges or via

the federal site. The goal is 7 million sign-ups from ALL sign-up points, the government is at 21% of that number in just 1 month, with something like 5 months to go.

[zentrum]

17. 27,000 is what...

...I just heard too. Really kind of terrifying, it's so low.

[grasswire]

12. then why does my local NBC news tell me it's much worse?

I think they said only 46,000 people have signed up.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. The Republicans have tried to claim "Obamacare" IS the website....

Then they claim "Obamacare" IS "The Exchanges".

They claim qualifying for Medicaid takes away from "Obamacare".

Next up: They will claim "Obamacare" is a failure because it's not making Obama a fortune.

[zentrum]

14. Not what I'm hearing...

...all over the news including NPR. The number they are using is 50,000! That's right. Fifty Thousand. I so hope your figures are the right ones.

[UTUSN]

15. R#28 & K nt

[libdem4life]

16. Hoping another wrinkle to this is that people in the Red States invariably know people in Blue

states. There is plenty of time before 2014 elections to hear a direct story from someone known that it has helped...not the media...and to begin to question their own regressive politicians.