http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obamacare-sign-ups-near-12m-202248239.html
The number of Obamacare customers keeps growing-which means the number of potential ex-Obamacare customers this year keeps increasing as well.
Nearly 11.7 million people nationally signed up for Obamacare health insurance plans sold through government marketplaces as of Feb. 22, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Monday.
That's about 300,000 people more than the 11.4 million sign-ups for 2015 plans reported just after the close of open enrollment on Feb. 15. The higher tally reflects effective extensions of the sign-up deadlines in most states that allowed people in the process of enrolling in plans at the time of the cutoff to finish.
The total number of people signed up for Obamacare plans is set to increase even more in coming weeks as most states allow people a special enrollment period for people who had been unaware until tax season that they face a financial penalty for having failed to obtain health insurance last year.
The current tally is about 5 million more than the 6.7 million people who were enrolled in Obamacare plans right before the start of open enrollment on Nov. 15.
"These numbers send a powerful message: the Affordable Care Act is working," Burwell said Monday at a White House event, where Obamacare supporters were thanked for their efforts during the open enrollment season.
"These numbers represent real people whose lives have changed for the better," she said. "While we know that number [of customers] will change as the year continues, we are pleased with the results to date."
Burwell noted that nearly 90 percent of HealthCare.gov customers get tax credits worth an average of $263 per month, and more than half of those subsidy recipients paid less than $100 per month for their health plans.
Almost 1.5 million Florida residents, more than 1 million Texas residents and more than 500,000 North Carolina residents alone get Obamacare subsidies to help pay for their monthly insurance premiums for HealthCare.gov-sold plans, she said.
let's cut to the chase, the ACA works millions are benefiting it hasn't been a train wreck or an abomination, 6 years of republican lies and misleading misinformation has done little toward the republican effort to deny you affordable healthcare. they are still lying and misleading and the numbers still grow. republicans have failed to twist the truth again at your expense, checkout this video it seems to ring true because during all this time of devoted attacks and doing nothing of the peoples work they don't have a replacement plan except the rusted out Ryan voucher duping.
