--- title: Obamacare Enrollment Tops 7 Million description: Latest data from an Obamacare enrollment period that exceeded expectations despite a hobbled start canonical: https://time.com/3398526/obamacare-enrollment/ author: Alex Rogers article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-18T16:37:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:16:35.939Z article:section: Politics og:title: Obamacare Enrollment Tops 7 Million og:description: Latest data from an Obamacare enrollment period that exceeded expectations despite a hobbled start og:url: https://time.com/3398526/obamacare-enrollment/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5643a16ed449ce62/69868702adae449bae5421ef/187238630.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Obamacare Expedited Bid Process Limited Who Could Build Website og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obamacare Enrollment Tops 7 Million twitter:description: Latest data from an Obamacare enrollment period that exceeded expectations despite a hobbled start twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5643a16ed449ce62/69868702adae449bae5421ef/187238630.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Obamacare Enrollment Tops 7 Million by [Alex Rogers](/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Sep 18, 2014 4:37 PM CUT  The Healthcare.gov website is displayed on laptop computers arranged for a photograph in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013\. The race to construct an online insurance exchange by Oct. 1 spurred the Obama administration to use an expedited bidding system that limited its choice of a builder to just four companies, including CGI Group Inc. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Healthcare.gov website is displayed on laptop computers arranged for a photograph in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013\. The race to construct an online insurance exchange by Oct. 1 spurred the Obama administration to use an expedited bidding system that limited its choice of a builder to just four companies, including CGI Group Inc. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAndrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Alex Rogers](/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Sep 18, 2014 4:37 PM CUT About 7.3 million Americans have completed enrollment in health insurance plans through the health care reform law’s insurance exchanges, a top Obama Administration health official said Thursday. Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, provided the latest Obamacare enrollment figures to Congress. Tavenner said the figure includes those who had paid their premiums by Aug. 15 and that the number is subject to change slightly as consumers move in and out of coverage. “We are encouraged by the numbers of consumers who have paid their premiums and continue to enroll in the marketplace coverage every day through special enrollment periods,” Tavenner said. The Obama Administration said in March that the insurance exchanges had signed up a little more than eight million people, but the federal government did not release data at the time on the percentage of enrollees who completed enrollment by paying premiums. Despite the downtick in the final number, it still reflects an enrollment process that exceeded expectations following the disastrous launch of the HealthCare.gov website last year. 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