{"id":34532,"date":"2014-11-28T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=34532"},"modified":"2014-11-28T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T16:24:12","slug":"nearly-half-a-million-enroll-in-obamacare-coverage-in-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=34532","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Half A Million Enroll In ObamaCare Coverage In First Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington <\/strong>\u00a0— Nearly half a million Americans chose plans on HealthCare.gov during the first week of open enrollment for 2015, a sign the federal health care site has improved since its rocky rollout last year.<\/p>\n

The Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that more than a million Americans submitted applications for coverage in the first week of open enrollment for 2015.<\/p>\n

From Nov. 15-21, 462,000 Americans chose plans on HealthCare.gov, with a little under half, or about 220,000, of those being new purchasers. Those figures only include numbers from the 37 states that offer coverage through the federal site, rather than state-based exchanges<\/p>\n

That’s a marked improvement from the 2014 open enrollment period, when 27,000 people signed up for coverage on HealthCare.gov during the entire first month.<\/p>\n

“We had a solid start, but we have a lot of work to do every day between now and February 15,” HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said in a statement. “People are ready to get covered, and visitors to HealthCare.gov are seeing more competition, affordable options and an improved consumer experience.”<\/p>\n

HHS said that about 3.7 million Americans used HealthCare.gov during the first week, and nearly 1.6 million used the “window-shopping” tool to browse coverage options over the week.<\/p>\n

The administration has\u00a0previously predicted<\/a>\u00a0that between 9 and 9.9 million to enroll in health coverage under Obamacare by the time the 2015 open enrollment period ends, at the end of February<\/p>\n

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