Low Obamacare enrollment figures turns up heat on White House

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Low Obamacare enrollment figures turns up heat on White House

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nudge-bill-clinton-democrats-seek-tweak-health-law-002441047--sector.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KujK7phB1BCLV6fDePUD4Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-13T002441Z_1_CBRE9AC015700_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks at the Annual Freedom Award Benefit Event hosted by the International Rescue Committee at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York" align="left" title="Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks at the Annual Freedom Award Benefit Event hosted by the International Rescue Committee at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York" border="0" /></a>By Richard Cowan and Caroline Humer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 106,000 people signed up for insurance coverage nationally under President Barack Obama's healthcare law during October, the government said on Wednesday, a tiny fraction of the millions of people that had been expected to enroll for next year. The Obama administration had signaled enrollment would be very low in October because of technical failures that have hobbled the HealthCare.gov website used for signing people up in 36 states. But the reported figures show how far the White House has to go to build a new individual market of millions of consumers in 2014 to keep the healthcare program financially viable. The enrollment in private plans amounts to 1.5 percent of a forecast 7 million people who were expected to sign up by the time enrollment wraps up in the end of March.</p><br clear="all"/>

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