The state’s health insurance exchange said it ended its inaugural enrollment period with 208,301 residents registered for coverage.
Access Health CT, created as a result of federal health care reform, said early this month that 197,878 people had signed up for health plans. But as the enrollment period concluded March 31, several thousand people had trouble accessing the website or getting through on the phone, due to a busy last-minute enrollment push.
The additional enrollment was the result of exchange workers reaching out to those people over the past two weeks, the exchange said.
Of the new total, 40 percent are enrolled in private plans, and of those, 78 percent received a government subsidy. The remaining 129,588 are enrolled in Medicaid plans.
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