Obamacare enrollment deadline looms amid questions about replacement

December 16, 2016

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The new Healthcare.gov deadline for Jan. 1 coverage is now 11:59 pm PT on Dec. 19. The final deadline is Jan. 31 for 2017 coverage. Healthcare.gov handles ACA insurance sales for the 38 states that don’t run their own exchanges.

California, New York and Connecticut, which all operate their own exchanges, already had Saturday, Dec. 17 as their deadlines for Jan. 1 coverage. The state exchanges for Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Washington state were even more generous, setting Dec. 23 as the cut off for Jan. 1 coverage.

CMS said the final days leading up to the Dec. 15 deadline were some of the busiest ever on HealthCare.gov.

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