More than 11 million people signed up for subsidized private health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, the White House announced said in a statement.
The White House tweeted a video of the US President Barack Obama saying "Obamacare is working better than we anticipated, certainly working better than many of the critics talked about."
BREAKING: About 11.4 million Americans are signed up for private health coverage. #11MillionAndCounting #ACAWorks
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— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 17, 2015
The open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act ended on Sunday. The White House says some eleven-point-four million people signed up during the three-month enrollment period.Democratic lawmakers are pressing Obama to grant a second chance to sign up for uninsured people facing tax penalties.
Last year, 8 million people had initially signed up.