Half of the people who purchased commercial health insurance plans offered by the state’s exchange in the most recent open enrollment period did not have prior coverage, officials revealed Wednesday.
In the prior year’s enrollment period, 43 percent of enrollees in private plans didn’t have prior coverage.
Access Health CT enrolled 103,000 state residents in private plans, known as “qualified health plans” (or QHPs), during the enrollment period that ended in February. Of that number, 35,887 were new enrollees.
A special enrollment period in April for those who faced tax penalties for not having insurance coverage in 2014 yielded another 1,429 private plan enrollments.
