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HealthCare.gov sign-ups drop slightly, end up at 8.8MFall 400K short of 2017 total
washingtontimes.com
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Thursday, December 21, 2017
Sign-ups on the Obamacare website’s main portal fell 400,000 short of last year’s total, the Trump administration said Thursday, coming in at roughly 8.8 million.
The 2018 enrollment period closed last week and all sides of the health care debate were watching to see how the first year under President Trump would go, after the president slashed the enrollment period and cut outreach.
Still, Obamacare supporters took heart in the brisk pace of enrollments, saying it exceeded their expectations. More than 4 million customers signed up in the final week on HealthCare.gov, although a sizable chunk were automatically re-enrolled in coverage after failing to pick a plan on their own.
“This is a remarkable result given the administration’s efforts to sabotage enrollment by gutting outreach, creating chaos and confusion, cutting off subsidies for low-income families, and shortening the enrollment period by six weeks,” said Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Eleven states, plus D.C., run their own exchanges, and most of them are giving customers extra time to enroll — in some cases until Jan. 31. Those states will need to combine for 3.4 million enrollees to match last year’s nationwide total of 12.2 million.
Insurers were hoping for an influx of healthy customers to make the law’s unstable economics work out, but the shortfall in sign-ups on the main website suggests that hasn’t happened. |
