The weekend's big news was the Obama administration finally releasing their first official numbers on ACA exchange signups; they stated that "more than 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges".
On the one hand, that's still a pretty nebulous figure--"Applications Filed" doesn't necessarily equal "People Actually Signed Up". On the other hand, many of those applications are likely for more than one person (households), so the number could be 2-3 times that figure. I also find it noteworthy that the 476,000 figure is remarkably close to my own rough tally (450,000) from just one day earlier, which I think is pretty cool!
Anyway, as we await Pres. Obama's live statement on the Healthcare.gov mess, here's my own latest rough tally:
If you go to ObamacareSignups.net, you'll see that my own current tally now sits at over a half a million. The updates are mostly due to this story from CNN, which states that New York has 134,000 signed up and Kentucky and Washington State have 45,000 each (although another reliable local source out of Spokane pegs the Washington number at 62,000, so I'm going with that for now).
Anyway, to keep my tally going and up to date, I'm STILL looking for people to assist by taking on one or more states.
I have 7 states covered so far, but
if you're interested in assisting, email me at cgaba (at) brainwrap (dot) com, thanks!
--California (ybruti)
--Colorado (MotherShipper)
--Connecticut
--District of Columbia
--Hawaii
--Kentucky
--Maryland dadadata
--Massachusetts
--Minnesota (Minnesota Deb)
--Nevada (CJB)
--New York
--Oregon (rsmpdx)
--Rhode Island (rugbymom)
--Vermont
--Washington State (rsmpdx)
I've made some significant updates to both the spreadsheet and the figures, including:
--I've added links to 3 other sources which are trying to track the number of signups, although all of them have lower numbers than I list: 50,000 (Daily Briefing), 156,000 (Aaron Strauss), 185,000 (Sarah Kliff's WonkBlog). It really depends on what you (or the state, or the media source) define as "applied", "approved", "enrolled" or "signed up". It also depends on whether you include Medicaid expansion or not (in my case, I'm doing so, which no doubt explains much of the higher total).
--Here's a great article that explains the situation with the state-run websites, which have fared far better than the disasterous Healthcare.gov
Anyway, as of this morning, my tally sits at 530,398. Check it out at:
ObamacareSignups.net