wants to give you reliable confirmed data from every state and from the federal marketplace. we have said we will do that on a monthly basis by the middle of the month. you will have that data, but i don t want to turn over anything that is not confirmed and reliable. but that data out there exists. sebelius: i would tell you right now it is not reliable data according to the insurance companies who are eager to have customers, they are not getting reliable data all the way through the system b. the number of people who have clicked on it, tries to enroll. i m not asking about what they enrolled in or if they came in and said they were 65 and they were 27 years old. that should be a pretty reliable number. sebelius: the system isn t functioning, so we are not getting that reliable data. insurers met with so that is the case.
and i have some questions about some enrollment concerns that i have. i understand yo is that a presey 700,000 people have applied for coverage via the healthcare.gov and the state exchanges. sebelius: they completed an application. which is different from enrollment. sebelius: that s correct. are you expecting, no you don t have exact numbers yet, but are you expecting a large number or small month enrollments? what are your thoughts on that? sebelius: our projections prior to launch were always that there would be a very small number at the beginning. we watched the massachusetts trend which started slowly and build. given our flaws launch of healthcare.gov it will be a very small number. in the massachusetts plan it was 123 people signed up. less than 1% of the overall first year enrollment in the first month. we saw the same kind of numbers in medicare part d the first part of open enrollment back in
2006. madam secretary, young americans are the most likely age group to be uninsured, and a lot of us are concerned that because of the problems that we ve been having with the website that a lot of these young folks may not come back on. they have very short attention spans. i have four kids who all work on the internet. if they cannot get something in five minutes, they are onto something else. what plans are in place for your department to encourage young people to go back and revisit the site and make sure that we re getting young people looking at that site and accessing it. sebelius: step number one is fixed the site because we don t want people to be invited back and then have a bad experience the second time around. the site is particularly important. tech savvy younger generation, folks who we need to enroll, i think that we have so fixing the
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