More than 330,000 people have managed to get deep enough into new government health insurance websites to learn how much financial assistance they will receive purchasing coverage, the Internal Revenue Service said Saturday.
That figure is arguably the most robust measure released to date by the administration of President Barack Obama of how many Americans are successfully applying for financial help in purchasing a private insurance plan.
Calculations of financial assistance is a step that follows filing an application and tells applicants how much of a tax credit — if any — they can use to purchase a private health plan. This figure does not include shoppers who were found to likely qualify for Medicaid earlier in the shopping process.