New Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act programs have helped more than 7 percent of U.S. residents get health coverage this year.

Charles Gaba, a closely watched Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act plan enrollment tracker, is reporting at ACASignups.net that he believes at least 6.6 million people have paid for commercial "qualified health plan" coverage through the exchanges or will soon pay for the coverage.

Gaba gets the QHP enrollment figure by taking the government QHP selection totals and assuming 93 percent of the QHP selectors will eventually pay for coverage.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.