The Thanksgiving holiday may have cooled activity growth at HealthCare.gov during the fourth week of the open enrollment period for individual health insurance for 2018.

About 504,000 families selected plans during the week that started Nov. 19, and those families' applications could end up covering a total of about 708,000 people.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), that runs HealthCare.gov, is publishing weekly activity reports this year and published biweekly reports last year.

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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.