HUFFINGTON POST — Enrollments via the federally run Obamacare health insurance exchanges onHealthCare.gov surged leading up to a big deadline last week and reached almost 6.4 million after the first month of sign-ups, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday.
That tally, including about 1.9 million new customers and the automatic re-enrollments of millions more already covered by Obamacare plans, combined withmore than 1 million sign-ups so far through the exchanges operated by 13 states and the District of Columbia, appears to put the program on target to surpass Burwell’s self-imposed target of 9.1 million total enrollments by the end of next year. The open enrollment period for health insurance policies purchased on these exchanges for 2015 started Nov. 15 and ends Feb. 15, 2015.
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“This is an encouraging start,” Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said in a statement. “The law is working and families are better off as a result.”
Read more at the Huffington Post.
