About 100,000 Americans have visited HealthCare.gov since Saturday and submitted new applications for health insurance coverage, Health and Human Service Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Sunday.
Obamacare’s second open enrollment period began over the weekend, and thus far officials say the website hasn’t been plagued by the same troubles that turned it into a punch line last year.
“I think the vast majority of people coming to the site were able to get on and do what they intended to do,” Ms. Burwell said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
She added that about 500,000 people who already have health insurance were able to successfully log on and view their accounts. Ms. Burwell’s comments underscore the administration’s desire to paint a much different narrative around the website than the one that emerged last year, when HealthCare.gov was overrun by glitches and essentially was unusable for the first few weeks of the Obamacare rollout.
President Obama also has made a personal pitch in recent days, telling Americans the site has been improved and Obamacare coverage is worth seeking out.
“You might be able to save more money,” the president said Saturday in his weekly address.
• Ben Wolfgang can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.
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