Health Care

More people conquer glitches to sign up for ObamaCare

WASHINGTON — About 29,000 people managed to sign up for ObamaCare in the first 48 hours since the relaunch Sunday of the health plan’s troubled Web site, sources said Wednesday.

It’s a huge improvement from the disastrous rollout, surpassing the 26,000 enrolled during the entire month of October.

But the numbers are still far short of the six-figure tally needed each day to achieve President Obama’s goal of 7 million enrollees by the March 31 deadline.

At the current pace, HealthCare.gov would process about 1.75 million applicants for 2014.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) called the latest figures “just more bad news for ObamaCare.”

“That is less than 15 percent of what the administration needs over a two-day period,” he said.

“If the administration is going to hit their enrollment targets, they need to be enrolling close to 100,000 per day.”

The 29,000 sign-ups were out of nearly a million visitors to the newly repaired site each day.

The administration insisted that enrollment numbers will improve over time.

“We expect our enrollment numbers to increase, given the technical improvements that we’ve made,” said Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services spokeswoman Julie Bataille.

The defective Web site and other problems with the law, including people losing their current plans or doctors, has undermined confidence in Obama and imperiled his second-term agenda.