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POLITICO — Obamacare enrollment appears on track to meet administration goals for 2015, with almost 2.5 million people selecting plans in the first month — including 1 million last week alone. The figures don’t include the weekend surge before the sign-up season’s first deadline, federal health officials announced Tuesday.
The HealthCare.gov website has been withstanding the increased traffic as the Obama administration works toward its scaled-back goal of having 9.1 million Americans covered in the exchanges by the end of next year. As of mid-October, 6.7 million people were covered.
Roughly half of those signing up since Nov. 15 were new customers, and the other half were renewing, CMS said. People who missed Monday’s renewal deadline will be automatically re-enrolled. Enrollment will run until Feb. 15, but individuals who wanted to get covered as of Jan. 1 had to sign up by 3 a.m. Tuesday EST.
These figures were for the federal exchange, not the state-run counterparts.
About 500,000 people left messages at Obamacare call centers over the weekend, and HealthCare.gov workers have begun trying to reach them, officials said. Those who left messages will be considered “in line” and will be allowed to complete their applications for coverage beginning Jan. 1, officials said on a call with reporters. They didn’t say how long the window would remain open.
Read more at Politico.
