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Obamacare still has a long, long way to go to hit its sales goal. Just 106,185 people nationally selected Obamacare health insurance plans in the first month of sales, federal officials announced Wednesday. And only 26,794 of those people went through HealthCare.gov site, the tech-troubled federal marketplace selling privately issued insurance to residents of the 36 states not running their own health exchange. The numbers were lower — much lower — than the 500,000 people federal officials had originally estimated would enroll in private insurance sold through all government-run exchanges in October after the rollout of the Affordable Care Act-mandated markets. Officials recently have warned enrollment would be below expectations because of the extreme software problems HealthCare.gov had after its Oct. 1 launch.

Fewer than 1,000 people had signed up, on average, in each of the states where the federal government's Web site is handling enrollment as of Nov. 2. And just three of those states — Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania — had more than 2,000 people select plans. And not all of the 106,185 people who have selected plans through either HealthCare.gov or one of the 15 state-run exchanges have paid premiums for their coverage. For that coverage to begin Jan. 1, premium payments must begin being made by Dec. 15. (Read more: State Obamacare exchanges have their own problems)

Officials also revealed Wednesday that 396,261 people nationally have been ruled eligible for health coverage under Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program, the government-run programs for primarily lower-income Americans. And a total of 975,407 people by Nov. 2 had completed enrollment applications and gone through process of having their eligibility for government subsidies to help buy insurance determined, but had not selected an insurance plan, officials said. Of the total 1.08 million people who have had their eligibility for subsidies determined — a number which includes those who have selected a plan — only 326,120 qualified for those tax credits, or less than one-third of the total. Wednesday's enrollment figures show that as of Nov. 2, the federal government was had achieved just 1.5 percent of its goal of enrolling 7 million people by the close of the open enrollment period on March 31. And they were released as both Republicans and some Democrats clamor for President Obama do something to alleviate the problems of millions of people having their current insurance cancelled even as HealthCare.gov remains difficult to navigate, and of "sticker shock" experienced by some of those people who have been able to shop for plans on the health exchanges. (Read more: Larry Summers: Obamacare doing better than expected)

