Officials Announce Health Plan Sign-Ups Outpace Goals And Include 4M New Customers

New participants who selected plans from state-based exchanges will boost the total number of new enrollments for 2016.

About 2,000 more people signed up for health insurance through the online Marketplace this year than last year.

Federal officials report 92,695 residents of Fort Myers and Naples signed up or were re-enrolled for health plans under the Affordable Care Act for 2016.

About 60 percent of enrollees signed up for health coverage this season in time to have coverage by January 1, up from the 40 percent who did so previous year, according to the department.

Among the concerns about enrollment cited by Goodman are that people who have enrolled so far have tended to be those eligible for the highest subsidies and those who are sick and likely face high medical bills.

The numbers of enrollment for federal insurance marketplaces yielded a modest gain of about 1 million customers for 2016, reported The Washington Post.

“We did see a big ramp-up in the final days”, Moriello said, adding that enrollment in the third year of the law has gone more smoothly than in the first two years.

Some health insurers have told Georgia agents that they will not pay commissions on new individual health insurance policies, on or off the exchange, from a period that starts soon and lasts for the end of the year, the documents say. Open enrollment ended January 31.

HHS said 196,242 people in IN enrolled in a plan through the HealthCare.gov, including 90,546 consumers in the Indianapolis local media market.

“It is clear that marketplace coverage is a product that people do want and need”, Burwell said on a conference call with reporters. At the end of the 2015 enrollment season, 11.7 million people were signed up, a number that dropped to 9.3 million by early fall.

The exchange also said Nevada had a higher rate of growth in enrollment in the last week of open enrollment than any other state.