With late surge, Texas Obamacare enrollment nearly matches 2016
Enrollment for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act soared in the final days before the federal sign-up deadline, bringing the total numbers to within a few percentage points of last year, when the enrollment window was twice as long.
In Texas, more than 550,000 people enrolled between Dec. 10 and Dec. 15, nearly doubling the total of enrollees over the previous six weeks combined, according to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which released the figures Thursday.
A total of 1.13 million Texans signed up for insurance on the federal exchange during this year’s 45-day period, coming in 8 percent below last year’s total of about 1.23 million, when open enrollment lasted three months.
The numbers still could climb, because people affected by this year’s hurricanes have been given extra time to sign up. In addition, the numbers don’t include people who were in the process of enrolling before the deadline and had to leave call-back numbers because of high volume.
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