Obamacare Exchanges Opens with a Trickle of Enrollment

The inaugural of Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges in every state has been met with public apathy.

The Washington Post reports Obamacare has had a trickle of enrollees…

Health insurers and individuals began reporting a trickle of enrollments in the new online marketplaces created by the health-care law, as federal and state officials scrambled to try to fix technical problems that have prevented many consumers from buying coverage.

The White House has declined to release any national statistics on sign-ups, saying complete information was not yet available.

“We don’t have that data,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Thursday.

Several insurers said that they are recciving at least sporadic enrollment reports from the Department of Health and Human Services, which is running the insurance marketplace for 34 states that have declined to set up their own exchanges.

A reporter in Texas found no enrollees so far

Bloomberg’s columnist Megan McArdle asks if the first enrollees could even be bogus