Health care law, by the numbers

Associated Press

WASHINGTON

The government churns out tons of numbers, but here’s one you won’t see: 0.0002. That’s the percentage of estimated online visitors to healthcare.gov who actually signed up for coverage the first day.

Altogether, that’s six people out of just over 3 million.

Not all the figures associated with the rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care law are so dreary. Three million tells a happier tale, too. That’s how many young adults have been able to get coverage under their parents’ plan thanks to the law’s rule that people up to age 26 can do so. A look at the health care law’s early going, by the numbers:

55 million: Estimated number of uninsured in America.

31 million: Remaining number of uninsured in America in 2016, when most of the law’s provisions have taken hold, according to federal projections.

89: Percentage of all residents expected to have health insurance in 2016.

91: Percentage of all residents, excluding people living in the country illegally, expected to have health insurance in 2016.

14: States that set up their own health insurance exchanges. District of Columbia also has its own exchange.

36: States that refused, leaving the federal government to do it.

227,478: People who had signed up through the 14 state-run exchanges as of Nov. 30.

137,204: People who had signed up through the federally run exchanges operating in 36 states by that same date.

$95: Fine for an adult who goes without health insurance in 2014, or 1 percent of taxable income, if greater.

$695: Fine for an adult going without health insurance in 2016, or 2.5 percent of taxable income.

6 million: The number of people who could be fined in 2016 for going without insurance, according to federal researchers.