Thank you so much.
In the first order, three million people have signed up, and already one and a quarter million people are getting care. The demand is absolutely massive, and I think we're going to be able to demonstrate in evidence not only what that means to people's dignity but also what that means in terms of better health outcomes and, frankly, saving money because they don't wind up in emergency rooms with much more serious cases.
We do have a lot of people left to go. Almost every single senior who's eligible has signed up for this program, but you're right about the additional cohorts. What I always said was that this was going to be a very big lift. Pre-authorization is extremely complex, which is one of the reasons I said that we didn't want to advance the new cohorts until we got the pre-authorization piece right. This was anticipated. Working through these issues, I think, is critical.
It's less a question of how long it's taking. What's happening with the rejected claims is that either information isn't being attached or there's a misunderstanding of what's required.
If you can imagine, this is very expensive and we have to be able to demonstrate that there's integrity built around the system. By its nature, it's not just automatically approved, because it's quite complicated work. It's not that it's taking a lot of time; it's that there were pieces missing, and people not understanding what they need to attach is the problem.
That's why I think we can work through that pretty carefully—