Obamacare registrations hit record total days after enrollment began

A record number of Americans have signed up for Obamacare in the first few days of open enrollment — despite White House cuts to outreach and promotion.

More than 200,000 people signed up Nov. 1, a Trump administration source told The Hill, which first reported on the surge.

That’s double the 100,000 who signed up on the first day of enrollment a year ago.

Web traffic to the healthcare.gov site that enrolls people in the Affordable Care Act also set a new record. Roughly 1 million visitors browsed the site, compared to 750,000 on Nov. 1 a year ago, The Hill said.

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The rush to enroll came after a social media push designed to let people know ACA is still the law of the land — despite President Trump’s rollbacks of several key parts of the plan.

“Starting today, you can sign up for 2018 health coverage. Head on over to http://HealthCare.gov and find a plan that meets your needs,” former President Barack Obama tweeted Nov. 1.

Democrats had worried that the Trump administration’s cutbacks to outreach and advertising would result in lower enrollment.

The window to sign up for health care for 2018 opened Nov. 1 and will close Dec. 15. That’s about half as long as the enrollment period under Obama.

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Last week Standard & Poor's forecast that 2018 signups might drop by as much as 1.6 million people from the 12.2 who registered for ACA the prior year — thanks to uncertainty about what Trump will do to the program.

Trump and GOP lawmakers have made dismantling Obamacare a priority — even though Republican efforts to repeal the law without a replacement have so far stalled on Capitol Hill.

Trump recently cut off important Obamacare subsidies to insurance companies to help lower out-of-pocket medical costs for low-income Americans.

The President also signed executive orders that dialed back certain requirements on insurance companies and de-funded outreach efforts to let people know the dates of the enrollment period.

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