
How does the paper arrive at the conclusion that the state is "on target with initial federal projections"? Observe:
Despite the surge of sign-ups, the disastrous launch of the Affordable Care Act's open-enrollment period in October leaves the nationwide figures short of the administration's goal to have 4.4 million people signed up by the end of January, according to a September Department of Health and Human Services memo.
Feel free
to pull out a calculator if you'd like to check our math. Divide 4.4
million by 50, the number of U.S. states, and you get 88,000--almost
exactly the number of sign-ups in Illinois. If every state has 88,000
sign-ups, then the nation is on target.
Just
one problem: Illinois, the fifth most populous state, accounts for
approximately 1/25th, not 1/50th, of the national population.
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