Florida tops nation in Obamacare enrollment
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida continues to lead the nation in the number of people taking advantage of a special enrollment period for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, with 146,250 people obtaining health insurance between Feb. 15 and March 31.
Nationwide, more than 500,000 people obtained so-called Obamacare coverage during that period, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Access to quality, affordable health care is essential - especially as we tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a prepared statement. Jodi Ray, director of Florida Covering Kids & Families, which works to sign up people for insurance, attributed the success to increased awareness of coverage options.
The Biden administration has extended the enrollment period by three months, until Aug. 15, as part of the effort to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 500,000 people nationally have signed up for Obamacare through March 31 since the special enrollment period began. Of those, more than 146,000 were in Florida.
Florida continues to lead the nation in the number of people taking advantage of a special enrollment period for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, with 146,250 people obtaining health insurance between Feb. 15 and March 31.
Nationwide, more than 500,000 people obtained Obamacare coverage during that period, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Apr 7, 2021 2:31 PM Tallahassee, FL - Florida continues to lead the nation in the number of people taking advantage of a special enrollment period for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, with 146,250 people obtaining health insurance between Feb. 15 and March 31. Nationwide, more than 500,000 people obtained so-called Obamacare coverage during that period, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Access to quality, affordable health care is essential - especially as we tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a prepared statement. Jodi Ray, director of Florida Covering Kids & Families, which works to sign up people for insurance, attributed the success to increased awareness of coverage options. Having to deal with the challenges of more than a year of a global pandemic has necessarily helped educate more people who have an ongoing need to fin