{"id":37668,"date":"2021-07-14T23:17:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37668"},"modified":"2021-07-14T23:17:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:17:23","slug":"more-than-2-million-sign-up-during-obamacare-special-enrollment-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37668","title":{"rendered":"More than 2 million sign up during ObamaCare special enrollment period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Administration officials announced Wednesday that more than 2 million people have signed up for health insurance during the special enrollment period using both federal and state marketplaces.<\/p>\n<p>The new sign-ups pushed the number of Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollees to a record high, though Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said the final enrollment count was not yet available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you make coverage affordable, when you make it easy for people to enroll, they will do so,\u201d Brooks-LaSure said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the numbers:\u00a0<\/strong>A total of 1.5 million Americans have enrolled in coverage through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthcare.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/healthcare.gov&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626410050900000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEjyEedCUUUwVXLwoEXk73txusYrg\">healthcare.gov<\/a>\u00a0throughout the special sign-up period, while another 600,000 used the 15 state-based marketplaces, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a record 81 million people have received coverage through Medicaid and the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) as of February.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the ongoing special enrollment period that the Biden administration opened on Feb. 15 and is slated to end on Aug. 15, health care sign-ups have swelled, after previously being open for weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administration officials announced Wednesday that more&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37669,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37668\/revisions\/37669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}