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Officials Extend Obamacare Sign-Up Deadline By Two Days
However, this means that their coverage will also begin later in the year.
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The healthcare.gov deadline to buy health insurance coverage that starts January 1, 2016, has been extended to 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
According to Counihan, hundreds of thousands of consumers have selected marketplace plans over the past two two days and about 1 million consumers have left their contact information to hold their place in line. He said late Tuesday that the last few days leading up to what had been the deadline for January 1 coverage were the busiest ever on HealthCare.gov since it first opened in October 2013.
Federal officials reported as many as 185,000 consumers were simultaneously shopping for plans in the final hours before the December 15 deadline. About 8 out of 10 people who enroll in health coverage through HealthCare.gov qualify for financial help to make their monthly premiums more affordable.
The new deadline, thanks to a 48-hour extension, will be at 1:59 a.m. Friday.
The law allows Americans who don’t get health benefits at work to shop among plans on state-based marketplaces operated by the federal government or by the states themselves, including California, Connecticut and Maryland.
If you don’t have health insurance and haven’t enrolled through HealthCare.gov, you now have some extra time.
Open enrollment was originally scheduled to end Tuesday, December 15th, for health care coverage set be begin on January 1st. Under the penalty, individuals without health insurance have to pay a fee of $695 or 2.5 percent of their annual income, whichever is higher.
The unexpected shutdown of Arches Health Plan, the state’s nonprofit insurance co-op, has also sent some 35,000 Utahns scrambling to find another plan.
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“We are seeing people who are reenrolling in plans”.