Obamacare 2015 Sign-Up Under Way With Few Glitches
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Obamacare’s second year of enrollment began with only scattered glitches, buoying U.S. officials who seek to further reduce the portion of Americans without health insurance.
The federal enrollment system was working well enough that 100,000 people submitted applications on the first day, Nov. 15, U.S. health secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” It’s a dramatic turnabout from 2013, when healthcare.gov collapsed on its first day of business, costing Burwell’s predecessor her job.