ACA Exchanges: Less than 1% of Exchange Web Site Visitors Sign-Up.

"EXCLUSIVE: Less than 1% of visitors are signing up for Obamacare on state health exchange websites.

*California's program registered an estimated 0.58 per cent of website visitors in its first day

*A Connecticut congressman boasted that his state took 167 applications for Obamacare services on day one, a rate of 0.59 per cent

*Obama administration won't say how many Americans signed up on the central website that covered insurance exchanges for 36 states

*Kentucky's 5.3 per cent application rate seems to be the nation's highest
*Other states wouldn't provide statistics, or tracked only the creation of new online accounts, not numbers of completed applications


As President Obama's signature health insurance overhaul effort began to enroll new participants on Monday, some states running their own insurance exchanges saw huge levels of website traffic but paltry interest in signing up.

California, the ultimate blue state whose federal lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in support of Obamacare, turned less than 1 per cent of its Web visits into 'Covered California' participants on Tuesday.

'We had over 5.7 million hits to our website as of 3 p.m. yesterday,' Covered California spokeswoman Kelsey Caldwell told MailOnline Wednesday.

'7,700 consumers began their application process yesterday. ... 4,143 applications are pending,' she added. 'We received 23,269 calls yesterday to our service center.'

Caldwell couldn't say how many of the 5.7 million website hits were from unique Californians. But assuming 712,500 online visitors saw eight different Web pages each, the sign-up rate was 0.58 per cent.” - EXCLUSIVE: Less than 1% of visitors are signing up for Obamacare on state health exchange websites, UK Daily Mail, 10/02/2013.

Link to the entire article appears below:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442115/EXCLUSIVE-Less-1-cent-Web-visitors-signing-Obamacare-state-health-exchange-websites.html


　

　

　










　

Pulling Out of the Individual Health Insurance Market in California: UnitedHealthcare Follows Aetna

"A second health insurer notified state regulators Tuesday that it will stop selling individual policies in California.

UnitedHealthcare announced it will no longer offer individual insurance plans after the end of the year. It will focus instead on its core business of group plans for large and small employers.

"Our individual business in California has always been relatively small and we currently serve less than 8,000 individual customers across the state," the company said in a statement. "Over the years, it has become more difficult to administer these plans in a cost-effective way for our members in California."

The announcement comes two weeks after Aetna Inc. said it also plans to exit California's individual insurance market. Both insurers avoided participating in the state exchange that is being established as part of the Affordable Care Act." - UnitedHealthcare to stop selling individual plans in Calif, AP/Foxnews.com, 07/02/2013

Link to the entire article appears below:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/02/unitedhealthcare-to-stop-selling-individual-plans-in-calif/