Forget about the problematic Obamacare website, enrollment at 3% of target in 12 U.S. states where Obamacare marketplaces are working smoothly

From Reuters:

President Barack Obama's healthcare reform has reached only about 3 percent of its enrollment target for 2014 in 12 U.S. states where new online health insurance marketplaces are mostly working smoothly, a report released on Monday said. 

States with functioning exchanges have signed up 49,100 people compared with the 1.4 million people expected to be enrolled for 2014, according to the report by healthcare research and consultancy firm Avalere Health. 

With enrollment in the federal HealthCare.gov website serving 36 states stalled by technical failures, the weak sign-ups for functioning insurance exchanges could be due to the administration's difficulty to promote the program as a success, Avalere said. 

The government is due to release national enrollment figures for the month of October this week. Open enrollment ends March 31, 2014. . . . 

Avalere looked at 11 of the 14 states and Washington D.C. that elected to build their own exchanges for individual insurance. . . .