Covered California Extends Deadline for Plans Starting January 1

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Source: East Bay Times

Responding to a strong surge in demand, Covered California on Thursday announced that anyone who still hasn’t enrolled in a 2018 health insurance plan on the individual market now has until Dec. 22 to sign up for coverage that begins Jan. 1.

The previous deadline had been midnight Friday.

“Covered California is seeing a huge influx of consumers, and we know that not everyone is getting through on the phone or is able to get an appointment with a certified enroller,” Peter Lee, executive director of the state-run Obamacare health insurance exchange, said in a statement. . . .

Since Wednesday, exchange officials said that more than 38,000 new consumers had enrolled in a health care plan, for a total of more than 182,000 new sign-ups since open enrollment began on Nov. 1. That’s 26,000 more compared to the same time last year, when 156,000 had signed up.

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