HealthCare.gov may have suffered its firstyear-over-year drop in activity volume during the fifth week of theopen enrollment period for individual health insurance for2018.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS), the federal agency that runs the web-based health insurancesupermarket program, says 823,180 families chose coverage throughthe system during the week that ended Saturday.
The families were on track to have a total of about 1.1 millionpeople covered by plans purchased through HealthCare.gov startingJan. 1, 2018.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
