signups
日本では消費税率の切り替わりが月末にやってきますが、米国ではいわゆるObama Careの締め切りです。
Deadline Near, Health Signups Show Disparity
The online insurance marketplace in Oregon is such a technological mess that residents have been signing up for health coverage by hand. In Texas, political opposition to President Obama’s health law is so strong that some residents believe, erroneously, that the program is banned in their state.
But in Connecticut, a smoothly functioning website, run by competent managers, has successfully enrolled so many patients that officials are offering to sell their expertise to states like Maryland, which is struggling to sign people up for coverage.
The disparities reveal a stark truth about the Affordable Care Act: With the first open enrollment period set to end Monday, six months after its troubled online exchanges opened for business, the program widely known as Obamacare looks less like a sweeping federal overhaul than a collection of individual ventures playing out unevenly, state to state, in the laboratories of democracy.
The White House said on Thursday that more than six million people have signed up for private plans, a significant political milestone for the Obama administration. Independent analysts estimate that an additional 3.5 million Americans are newly insured under Medicaid — figures the law’s backers hail as a success.
sign upというPVからの逆成 signup/sign-upですが、これはクラブや大がかりな行事など多人数のものへの入会、加盟、参加などを前提とする「署名登録」を意味しています。ただ今はコンピュータによる登録もありなので、何も署名とつけることはないのかもしれません。ちなみに見出しは複数形になっています。（UG）
