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Feds Silent On How Many People Have Actually Enrolled in Obamacare

Guy Benson

Despite the three years of preparation time and millions of dollars spent to ready the nation for Obamacare, the system continues to be full of glitches. The Obama administration is now refusing to release enrollment numbers for at least a month, but it's not looking good so far. Townhall's Guy Benson writes: We know that individual state figures have ranged from bad (Kentucky, where 5.3 percent of visitors enrolled), to negligible (Connecticut, 0.58 percent) to, um, zero: Louisiana’s top health-insurance provider said that not a single person enrolled in a new health-care plan offered through the Affordable Care Act on its first day. [Keep Reading]

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