The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act public exchange helped 8.02 million people sign up for private coverage by April 19, up from 7 million March 31.
The individual open enrollment period started Oct. 1 in most of the country and originally was supposed to end March 31. Many exchanges offered enrollment period extensions for most or all consumers in their markets.
The public exchange programs run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services increased the number of plan selectors 14 percent between March 31 and April 19, to 4.8 million, according to a new HHS exchange enrollment report.
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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.
