The AP is reporting administration officials are saying more than 476,000 applications have been filed across the country.
Obama's advisers say the president has been frustrated by the flawed rollout. During one of his daily health care briefings last week, he told advisers assembled in the Oval Office that the administration had to own up to the fact that there were no excuses for not having the website ready to operate as promised.
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The officials said technology experts from inside and outside the government are set to work on the glitches, though they did not say how many workers were being added.
Officials did say staffing has been increased at call centers by about 50 percent. As problems persist on the federally run website, the administration is encouraging more people to sign up for insurance over the phone.
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Interest in the insurance markets appears to continue to be high. Officials said about 19 million people had visited HealthCare.gov as of Friday night.
Of the 476,000 applications that have been started, just over half have been from the 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead in running the markets. The rest of the applications have come from the 14 states running their own markets, along with Washington, D.C.
Given all the problems the federal website has had, these are pretty good numbers and are on track to reach the administration's goals.
I know in Colorado, If you want the tax credit to be applied to your monthly insurance premium, you have to apply for and be rejected by Medicaid first. This dumps a whole lot of work on the Medicaid people so things have slowed down. I've been waiting over a week to hear back from the Medicaid office. I suspect there will be a rush of policy purchases as soon as the first wave of Medicaid rejections starts happening.