Obamacare Sign-Ups Astonishingly Pathetic- Even Pitiful State Enrollment Numbers Worse Than Anyone Expected

Garth Kant * WND

WASHINGTON — The biggest problem with Obamacare may not be the website – it may be Obamacare, itself.

Low enrollment in state exchanges indicates the demand for Obamacare may be nearly nonexistent.

The government expects 1.4 million Americans to enroll in Obamacare on the state-run exchanges by the end of the year, but only a little more than 49,000 have signed up, with just six weeks to go.

According to an analysis by the research firm Avalere Health, only 3 percent of expected participants have enrolled in 11 of the 14 states (and Washington, D.C.) that made their own exchanges for individual insurance.

This is potentially devastating news to the administration, which needs to sign up 7 million people by March 31, 2014, to make Obamcare financially viable.

What makes these low numbers so dramatic is the state-run exchanges have had far fewer online problems than the disastrous federal-exchange website, which only managed to sign up six people across the nation on it’s first day, Oct. 1.

That means the problem likely could be that the vast majority of Americans simply don’t want Obamacare, even if they can enroll.

Federal vs. state exchanges

Initially, Obamacare called for every state to set up its own health-care exchange. When most states declined to do that, the federal exchange was created to give people in those 36 states a place to enroll in Obamcare. The federal website problems have made the most headlines.

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