To give you an idea of how bad it was in Texas, the Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool (for high-risk individuals) has only had 90,000 people enrolled since it’s inception in 1997.
More than 23,000 of those people were added to the rolls IN JUST THE LAST MONTH.
If you're taking the data from here:
You're misreading it.
It says there are CURRENTLY a TOTAL of about 23,000 folks in the Texas pool, not that 23,000 folks enrolled last month, and that the pool has served 90,000 or so folks since its inception (most of whom are obviously no longer enrolled).
This is consistent with other links with bits and piece of this sort of data. For instance, this link shows over 26,000 folks enrolled in Texas at the end of 2010:
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparetable.jsp?ind=602&cat=7
It isn't likely that between Dec 31, 2010 and Aug 31, 2011, enrollment jumped from 26,000 to 90,000, and then another 23,000 in September, 2012. Rather, enrollment has been bumping around the low- to mid-20 thousands for some time, now.
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