Enrollments Exceed Obama’s Target for Health Care Act
By MARK LANDLER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR, NYT
APRIL 17, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama announced Thursday that eight million people have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, including what the White House said were a sufficient number of young, healthy adults, a critical milestone that might counter election-year attacks by Republicans on the law’s success and viability.
The total number of enrollees exceeds by a million the target set by the administration for people to buy insurance through government-run health care exchanges. In particular, the number of young people signing up appears to have surged during the final weeks of enrollment.
“This thing is working,” Mr. Obama told reporters in the White House briefing room, in what amounted to a second victory lap after he announced two weeks ago that 7.1 million people had signed up for insurance during an initial enrollment period. “The Affordable Care Act is covering more people at less cost than most people would have predicted a few months ago.”
Still, critics of the law cautioned that promising top-line numbers were not by themselves proof of success.
(More here.)
APRIL 17, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama announced Thursday that eight million people have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, including what the White House said were a sufficient number of young, healthy adults, a critical milestone that might counter election-year attacks by Republicans on the law’s success and viability.
The total number of enrollees exceeds by a million the target set by the administration for people to buy insurance through government-run health care exchanges. In particular, the number of young people signing up appears to have surged during the final weeks of enrollment.
“This thing is working,” Mr. Obama told reporters in the White House briefing room, in what amounted to a second victory lap after he announced two weeks ago that 7.1 million people had signed up for insurance during an initial enrollment period. “The Affordable Care Act is covering more people at less cost than most people would have predicted a few months ago.”
Still, critics of the law cautioned that promising top-line numbers were not by themselves proof of success.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
how many have paid premiums? how many continue to pay premiums? how many have stopped paying premiums? how many were previously uninsured?
you can't just count the number of times people click the 'enroll now' button on a website and claim victory.
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