“Nearly 8.3 million people signed up for Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage on HealthCare.gov for 2020, a slight decline from the 8.4 million that signed up for 2019.”
“The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released Wednesday the final enrollment for the site that is used by residents in 38 states to buy coverage on the ACA’s exchanges. The agency will release a final report on enrollment in March that will include enrollment from state-based exchanges…”
“The reason for the slight decline appears to be fewer people renewing their coverage on HealthCare.gov. CMS’ report showed that 6.2 million people renewed their plans for 2020, compared to 6.3 million for 2019.”
“The number of new consumers picking plans was slightly up, with 2.08 million new consumers for 2020 compared with 2.07 million for 2019…”
“The 2020 open enrollment period got off to a rocky start as the site was marred by anecdotal reports of technical problems that include consumers having trouble picking a plan. CMS has said that any reported technical issues on the first day of open enrollment were addressed that day and that operations continued as normal…” Read the full article here.
Source: Nearly 8.3M pick ACA plans on HealthCare.gov for 2020, a slight dip from 2019 – By Robert King, January 8, 2020. FierceHealthcare.
