Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollments Top Eight Million

On May 1, 2014, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace totaled over eight million people. The final enrollment reporting period spans from October 1, 2013, to March 31, 2014, and includes “in line” and other enrollment activity (such as people enrolling due to a change in life circumstance) reported through Saturday, April 19, 2014. As part of the total enrollment, 2.2 million (28%) of the people who selected a marketplace plan during the initial open enrollment period were young adults between the ages of 18 and 34, and . . .