Just 536 Georgians successfully enrolled in a new health plan during the first month of business for the haywire Health Insurance Marketplace, state officials said Wednesday.
The same day, in Washington, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made the federal government’s first report on how the marketplace performed from Oct. 1 through Nov. 2: about 106,000 people got far enough on the exchanges, both state and federal, that they were able to select an insurance plan. Not all of them had paid for the plan yet.
That number — actual paid enrollments — was absent from Sebelius’ report. The federal data showed that 1,390 Georgians had selected a marketplace plan, but Georgia’s numbers showed that only 536 had actually completed enrollment.
“Whatever the numbers are – they don’t tell us a dang thing,” said Georgia State University health care expert Bill Custer.
Custer said that even if the marketplace had been working perfectly, most people would not have enrolled in the first month anyway. It’s a complicated decision that people will take time to make, he said.
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