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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:41 PM Mar 2014

Judging Obamacare state by state - Enrollment figures vary widely by location.

Earlier this month the Department of Health and Human Services announced that more than five million people had selected plans on the public insurance exchanges, a sign that the pace of enrollments is quickening as the March 31 deadline for choosing a plan approaches. But a look at the exchanges during the last month of the sign-up period shows that the enrollment picture isn’t equal across the map. “A handful of states have done great,” says Katherine Hempstead, the senior program officer for the coverage team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropy dedicated to health care. “But there are some states that are really not getting much traction at all.”

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Judging Obamacare state by state - Enrollment figures vary widely by location. (Original Post) PoliticAverse Mar 2014 OP
Yep, just this week the ACA finally made the local TV news. First time they've sinkingfeeling Mar 2014 #1

sinkingfeeling

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1. Yep, just this week the ACA finally made the local TV news. First time they've
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 02:02 PM
Mar 2014

ever told people they could get help with signing up and 'might' get help paying for the policies. But then they've been busy with all their Walmart stories.

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