818K Sign Up For ACA Plans In First Week Of Open Enrollment

CMS late Thursday (Nov. 12) released a first week enrollment snapshot for the 36 states using the healthcare.gov platform that shows 818,365 people selected plans, including 173,344 new enrollees and 645,021 returning enrollees. Get America Covered, which tracks enrollment data, says that while signups are lower than in previous years, they’re still a good start. The enrollment group had initially predicted that 875,000 to 1.05 million people would sign up in week one, but that assumption didn’t take into consideration...