Nearly 1M go thru Obamacare process but still need to enroll [UPDATE] WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- More than 106,000 people chose healthcare plans in the first period of open enrollment in the Affordable Care Act's Marketplace, the Obama administration said. The Department of Health and Human Services also said Wednesday 975,407 other customers have gone through the process but not selected a plan. An additional 396,261 were assessed or determined eligible for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program, also under the act. The first reporting period was from Oct. 1 to Nov. 2. The figures include enrollment by state, including each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, but the department said only partial figures were available in Marketplaces run by the states. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called the enrollment numbers "poor." While the Obama White House is sure to blame the poor enrollment numbers on the many unacceptable tech glitches that have frustrated Americans, I maintain that the larger reason Obamacare has failed is because it was conceived based on a lie that Americans could keep their healthcare plans and has failed to address our No. 1 healthcare problem in America: soaring costs," he said. Meanwhile, issues afflicting the federal health insurance website make it unlikely the site will work fully at November's end as the White House has vowed, an official said.