Real Numbers: Only half of GA Obamacare enrollees have paid

While the White House refuses to fill us in on exactly how many actually have insurance under Obamacare, the states have begun to divulge some of the numbers...and they tell a different story than that of the regime (shocker!)...

GeorgiaHealthNews: Georgia insurers received more than 220,000 applications for health coverage in the Affordable Care Act’s exchange as of the official federal deadline of March 31, state officials said Wednesday.

Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens, though, said premiums have been received for only 107,581 of those policies, which cover 149,465 people.

“Many Georgians completed the application process by the deadline, but have yet to pay for the coverage,” Hudgens said in a statement Wednesday.

Second thoughts after seeing the sticker price, perhaps? I had about the same response as Jim Geraughty over at NRO: 'Half?' If this 50% trend keeps up through other states, that'll only provide a broader insight into the regime's touted (and bogus) numbers game.

When Progressives insist that we’re wrong and Obamacare is more popular than it seems, they’ll point to the enrollment numbers. They dismiss the national surveys, but there’s some indication that Obamacare’s meager support in the polls is actually worse than we think, because it’s being artificially boosted by respondents that are eager to declare the whole thing a success, no matter how their state exchange is actually performing.