rand came out with their own report this week and they re estimating there was a net gain of 9.3 million people newly insured under the care care. affordable care act. they estimate 8.2 enrolled with coverage by their employers. and 72.000000 were previously uninsured. you may notice a difference in the stats rand is reporting and those coming from the obama administration as the reported last week that 7.1 million americans had selected plans on both state and federal exchanges. this is strictly marketplace coverage while rand is including those that enrolled in group plans and medicaid. their survey ended in mid-march and doesn t include the enrollment surge hhs reported in the final week of the open enrollment period. we re still wondering who paid their first month premium as is this how the insurance industry historically defined coverage. hhs secretary kathleen sebelius said last week she estimateds 80 to 90% of enrollees made first
is accelerating and i wanted to ask you about enrollment. the numbers released today, are impressive and i want to get broader context from you how enrollment is progressing. we always expected enrollment to be slow in the early months. that is what happened in massachusetts when they implemented health care reform. in the first month, only .03% of people in massachusetts ultimately signed up actually enrolled but the clear trend in the report released today and reports from the states that enrollment is surging. in november there were four times more enrollments in private plans than october. more than 1.2 million enrolled in private plans were found eligible for medicaid and more than 1.9 million people are eligible for marketplace coverage and poised to enroll as soon as they select a plan. 3.7 million have applied for coverage but the most important fact is the trend. the pace of enrollments at the end of the month was double the pace at start of the month and that trend appears to