All-Time High: 13.6 Million People Have Signed Up for Marketplace Health Coverage

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All-Time High: 13.6 Million People Have Signed Up for Marketplace Health Coverage 

Picture with text A Historic 13.6 Million Americans Have Enrolled in Health Coverage on HealthCare.gov and State-based Marketplaces

 

This year’s Open Enrollment Period is outpacing all previous years, a historic high of more than 13.6 million people already enrolled in health insurance coverage for 2022 through HealthCare.gov and State-based Marketplaces (SBMs). The American Rescue Plan (ARP) has made coverage more affordable and accessible for people across the country: 92% of people in HealthCare.gov states who signed up for plans through December 15, 2021, will receive premium tax credits for 2022 coverage. Moreover, more than 400,000 people will receive tax credits for 2022 coverage, to date, that would have been inaccessible to them prior to the ARP. Since President Biden took office, more than 4.6 million Americans have newly gained health care coverage.

 

From the start of Open Enrollment through December 15, 2021, more than 9.7 million consumers enrolled in Marketplace coverage in the 33 states using HealthCare.gov for 2022. This is over 900,000 more people than the previous all-time high of 8.8 million who signed up during the 2018 Open Enrollment Period with 39 states using HealthCare.gov. The 18 SBMs that use their own platforms reported to The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that through December 11 (week six), almost 3.9 million consumers selected plans or were automatically re-enrolled in a plan for 2022 health coverage. This is up from last year when SBMs reported that 3.4 million consumers made a plan selection in the 15 State-based Marketplaces for 2021, through week six.

 

View the full press release here: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/all-time-high-136-million-people-signed-health-coverage-aca-insurance-marketplaces-month-open 

 

HealthCare.gov Snapshot

Week 6: Dec 5 - 15

Plan Selections

5,777,306

New Consumers

814,899

Renewing Consumers

4,962,407

Total Consumers on Applications Submitted

5,678,927

Call Center Volume

1,299,313

Calls with Spanish Speaking Representative

94,649

HealthCare.gov Users

6,645,197

CuidadoDeSalud.gov Users

233,960

Window Shopping HealthCare.gov Users

386,368

Window Shopping CuidadoDeSalud.gov Users

24,210

 

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Note: Three states including Kentucky, Maine and New Mexico, transitioned to SBMs for the 2022 Open Enrollment Period. These factors should be considered in any year-over-year HealthCare.gov enrollment comparisons. As in past years, the final Open Enrollment numbers, including SBM numbers, will be provided after the Open Enrollment Period ends in all states. 

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