10/03/13
Obamacare’s second day of exchange enrollment didn’t go much better than the first. The state-based exchanges were once again plagued by delays and glitches, but the biggest problems seemed to remain concentrated in the 36 exchanges being managed by the federal government. Officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said that their system was still overloaded with an unexpectedly high volume of web traffic—4.7 million visits during the first 24 hours of enrollment.
But what they are still not saying is how many people actually managed to sign up for coverage within the federal exchanges. That data, they say, may be ready next month. But given widespread reports of problems with account creation and enrollment on those exchanges, it seems possible that the number of people who have enrolled so far is very, very small. In fact, it’s not clear that any reporter has managed to encounter one yet at all.
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