Enrollment for Obamacare's state-operated Small Business Health Options Program is falling significantly short of government expectations, the General Accountability Office announced Thursday.
According to the nonpartisan agency's audit, as of last summer, only about 76,000 people working for about 12,000 employers had enrolled in insurance plans sold by 18 state-run SHOP exchanges. The projected enrollment of SHOP? Two million by the end of January.
The other 33 SHOP exchanges run by the federal government didn't have enrollment data available for the GAO, but GAO said they don't expect numbers to be much different.
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