Obamacare Said to Take In Almost 500,000 Applications
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Almost 500,000 Americans have submitted applications for health insurance through the online exchanges being run by the federal government and 14 states, according to an Obama administration official.
Consumer use of healthcare.gov has been stymied by technical glitches since it went live Oct. 1. The site is the government’s online portal for people looking for new health plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, which seeks to insure as many as 7 million people by March. Workers and contractors at the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have been working to fix it.