Estimates from 19 states offering health care exchanges show that at least 8.5 million plan to buy insurance through exchanges in those states, far outpacing the federal government’s estimate of 7 million new participants in exchanges across all 50 states, USA Today reported Monday.
The newspaper contacted all 50 states, and 19 were able to provide estimates for how many uninsured residents were expected to purchase health insurance through their exchanges. California alone estimated that it would sign up 5.3 million uninsured, according to USA Today.
The Congressional Budget Office had independently determined that 7 million people would purchase insurance through the exchanges nationwide, which are open for enrollment between Oct. 1 and March 31, 2014, according to the newspaper.
