{"id":43017,"date":"2014-03-12T01:08:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T01:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wonkblog_obamacare_bummer_enrollment_drops_off_in_february\/"},"modified":"2014-03-12T01:08:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T01:08:46","slug":"wonkblog_obamacare_bummer_enrollment_drops_off_in_february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43017","title":{"rendered":"(Wonkblog) Obamacare bummer \u201d\u201d enrollment drops off in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 4.2 million people have signed up for health plans on Obamacare exchanges through the end of February, making it unlikely that the Obama administration will hit lowered enrollment estimates in the program\u2019s first year.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever momentum was building in January appeared to drop off in February, as the number of sign ups fell below the administration&#8217;s expectations. The numbers &#8212; which were released a day before Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on the Hill &#8212; also show young people aren&#8217;t enrolling at rates officials had predicted. That group is key because they are generally presumed to be healthier and less costly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/03\/11\/obamacare-bummer-enrollment-drops-off-in-february\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 4.2 million people have signed up for health plans on Obamacare exchanges through the end of February, making it unlikely that the Obama administration will hit lowered enrollment estimates in the program\u2019s first year. Whatever momentum was building in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43017\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,149,168,104,617,616,151,667,618,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}