On October 1, Obamacare’s subsidized insurance exchanges went live.
Most of the exchange websites crashed on the first day, a development
that led some of the law’s supporters to conclude that there was
overwhelming demand for Obamacare’s insurance products. But the Obama
administration isn’t releasing figures as to the number of Americans who
have actually signed up for exchange-based coverage. “Very, very few
people that we’re aware of have enrolled in the federal exchange,”
said one anonymous insurance industry official to the
Washington Post. “We are talking single digits.”
Exchange agencies walk back high-traffic hype
Other exchanges have had to pare down their initial statistics. Covered California, that state’s subsidized insurance exchange,
initially claimed
that its website had received 5 million hits on October 1. They later
had to revise that number down 87 percent, to 645,000. KUSI-TV in San
Diego is
reporting that not one policy has yet been sold on the California exchange.
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