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Report: Fewer Than 50,000 Enrolled on Obamacare Site

HeadlineNov 12, 2013

The Wall Street Journal reports fewer than 50,000 people had successfully enrolled in private health insurance through the new federal website as of last week, a month after it launched. That is a tenth of the Obama administration’s estimated target of 500,000 enrollees for the month of October. The administration had estimated seven million people would enroll before the deadline at the end of March, but the site has been beset by technical failures. The government has not released official enrollment figures, merely confirming that roughly 700,000 people have completed applications across all 50 states using both federal and state-run websites. A separate tally of 12 of the 14 states running their own exchanges found roughly 49,000 enrollees.

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