BREAKING: Obamacare Sign-Ups Hit 8 Million in Remarkable Turnaround
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Source: NBC News / Huffington Post
@BreakingNews: President Obama says Obamacare enrollment hits 8 million; 35% of those enrolled are under age of 35 - live video http://t.co/kZG2N7vh1U
Obamacare Sign-Ups Hit 8 Million In Remarkable Turnaround
Jeffrey Young
04/17/14 03:54 PM ET
In a remarkable rebound from the botched rollout of Obamacare, 8 million people signed up for private health insurance via the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act since October, President Barack Obama announced during a press briefing at the White House Thursday.
March and April saw an uptick in the share of young people signing up for private plans using the exchanges. These people, who are presumably healthier, are needed to balance out the medical costs of older, sicker consumers. About 35 percent of people who signed up throughout the open enrollment period were under 35 years old, including children, Obama said. Twenty-eight percent were between the ages of 18 and 34, according to a White House fact sheet.
The official six-month enrollment period ended March 31, but the federal government and most states accommodated people trying to complete applications in April amid a last-minute surge for subsidized private coverage and Medicaid benefits.
"This law is working," Obama said. "This law won't solve all the problems in our health care system. We know we've got more work to do, but we now know for a fact that repealing the Affordable Care Act would increase the deficit, raise premiums for millions of Americans, and take insurance away from millions more."
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and joking of course...just getting the crazies riled up.
Oh can you hear the sound of republican heads rolling and exploding
now it's 8,000,000? OMG get the popcorn everyone 
The show will be great, long, and utterly funny, ........
We should really enjoy them blowing up 
8 boxes of popcorn, 8,000,000.
But .... but ... but!!!!!
He sucks, because he didn't deliver Single Payer with a GOP House!!!
He sucks, because he doesn't Rule By Decree and do what "I" want!!!
Onward and upward with the ACA...it IS the path to Single Payer, even if the Want it NOW crowd can't get it now. State by state, we'll see it happen, in time. VT needs to lead the way, and I hope they do.
“We understand that the Republican Party is going through the stages of grief right now…pain, denial, anger…we’re not quite to the stage of acceptance yet. But we hope they’ll get there.” 
8 million books really stirs up a stink. A smokey stink. A stick in your throat and choke you stink. What? No smoke? Just stink. And, it's coming from the Repigs shitting their pants. 
8 rolls for 8 million....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you! 
