CMS: 177K Selected Plans In First Three Days Of Open Enrollment

More than 177,000 Americans selected health care plans through healthcare.gov from Friday (Nov. 1) through Sunday (Nov. 3), CMS announced in its first “weekly enrollment snapshot” of the season , and a key former Obama official says the numbers suggest the widespread enrollment problems on day one were more serious than the agency acknowledged. Josh Peck, co-founder of Get America Covered and former head of marketing for healthcare.gov under the Obama administration, had expected to see around 275,000 plan selections,...