More than 600,000 Americans signed up for coverage in the first four days of open enrollment for the health insurance exchanges, federal health officials said Thursday.
That national average of 150,000 a day is higher than the 84,000 people a day who signed up during a 12-day initial enrollment period last year.
The 601,462 figure reported Thursday came in the 39 states, including Georgia, whose exchanges are run by the federal government. But the Department of Health and Human Services, which released the numbers, did not break them down by state.
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