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Hoosiers Numbers Up As ACA Enrollment Ends

Screenshot of HealthCare.gov.
Screenshot of HealthCare.gov.

Friday marks the last day Hoosiers can sign up for health insurance coverage in the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplace.

A flux of people enrolled when the open enrollment started Nov. 1 despite a cut in promotional material.

The enrollment period was shorter this year as President Donald Trump scaled back parts of the Obama-era federal law. Still, early numbers show about 79,000 Hoosiers had picked a plan on the healthcare.gov website through last week. That’s compared to about 71,000 at the same time last year.

This year’s open enrollment has also been marked with confusion amid a federal push in Congress to repeal and replace the law.

Jill Sheridan Poulos is a managing editor at WFYI. Jill worked as an editor and reporter on the city beat for six years. She was previously a member of the IPB News teams covering health and science. She started at WFYI as a news anchor.
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