{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=d659976d-30f4-4f3f-8ff3-cb07fea7363f", "Grassley, Hatch Release Enrollment Data from Four Health Insurance Companies", "2013-11-08", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Orrin Hatch", "H000338", "www.hatch.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah today released enrollment data from the four health insurance companies participating in the Washington, D.C., exchange set up via the President\u2019s health care program.\u00a0 The Obama Administration has refused to provide enrollment numbers to the American people.\r\nCareFirst BlueCross BlueShield: two enrollees from Oct. 1, 2013, through Oct. 30, 2013.\r\nKaiser Permanente: three enrollees from Oct. 1, 2013, through Oct. 31, 2013.\r\nUnitedHealthcare: no enrollment data from the exchange as of Nov. 4, 2013.\r\nAetna:\u00a0 no enrollment data as of Oct. 24, 2013.\r\n\u201cA lot of Americans are getting cancellation notices from their current health care plan but they haven\u2019t been able to enroll in a new plan,\u201d Grassley said.\u00a0 \u201cThe limbo and uncertainty are stressful for them, as they\u2019ve been describing in emails to my office.\u00a0 The chaos imposed on so many people is reason to at least delay the individual mandate, if not outright repeal it.\u201d\r\n\u201cWith numbers like these, it's no wonder the Obama Administration hasn't wanted to release how many people have signed up for ObamaCare,\u201d said Hatch.\u00a0 \u201cWith data from DC's four participating health plans in, there's been a whopping five people enrolled in the city\u2019s exchange. That\u2019s right five. Whether it's significant problems with the website, people being forced off the coverage they had or skyrocketing costs, these numbers are even more proof of what a disaster ObamaCare is and why it should be delayed.\u201d\r\nOn Oct. 24, 2013, Grassley and Hatch wrote to the four companies participating in the Washington, D.C., health care exchange.\u00a0 The Washington, D.C., exchange has four major plans and so provides a snapshot of how Americans fare in trying to join the new exchanges.\r\nGrassley and Hatch said news reports show problems with what are called \u201c834 forms\u201d that contain individual information that insurers use to enroll the individual in a health care plan.\u00a0\u00a0 Inaccurate or corrupted data would interfere with successful enrollment.\u00a0 That has implications for when the Administration should enforce the individual mandate requiring enrollment.\u00a0 It would be unfair to penalize people for not having health insurance when technical problems have impeded their enrollment, Grassley and Hatch said.\r\nThe responses the senators received are available here, here, here and here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=d659976d-30f4-4f3f-8ff3-cb07fea7363f"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.96077099442482, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}