Screenshot of HealthCare.gov home page on Oct. 15, 2018 (Image: CMS)

Private health insurers appear to be doing a better job of keeping, and adding, working-age adult enrollees in states that use HealthCare.gov than in other states.

Here's what happened to private insurance coverage rates for adults ages 18 through 64 in the first half of this year, when compared with coverage rates for 2017:

Pure HealthCare.gov states: Increased to 69.2 percent, from 68.4 percent.

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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.