Georgia Sees Last-Minute Health Care Enrollment Surge, But Trails Last Year’s Total

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December 13th, 2018

The sign-up deadline for Affordable Care Act insurance is this Saturday, Dec. 15. Typically, the last week of enrollment sees a large number of people trying to get signed up. And that’s occurring in Georgia again this year, according to the state’s “navigator” organization, which assists people in enrolling in the exchange.

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Just a few days are left before the deadline for sign-ups in the 2019 health insurance exchange.

Yet as of Dec. 8, the number of Georgians who had enrolled in the health insurance exchange was less than half of last year’s total sign-up figure, federal health officials report.

Through this past Saturday, 233,584 Georgians had enrolled for Affordable Care Act insurance. Last year’s final total was roughly 481,000.

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