The new public exchanges may have disappointed the enrollment forecasters, but they seem to indicate some consumer interest in a new way to buy health insurance. High-populated states such as New York and California have the highest enrollment numbers, data shows.
The department of Health and Human Services state-by-state exchange activity table shows that the exchanges now have about 1.1 million enrollees who can use the exchanges to shop for private coverage and 326,130 who can use government subsidies to shop for coverage.
By way of comparison, the popular, well-established eHealthInsurance.com private exchange website has about 1.1 million members.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
