Half Of ACA-Insured In Ga. Have Paid Premiums
By Kate Harrison, Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn. | |
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But fewer than half have paid for the first's month's premium on those policies -- an essential step in buying coverage through the federal insurance marketplace, a report from
Georgia Insurance Commissioner
That doesn't count people who signed up during a two-week extension allowed for those who started but couldn't complete the sign-up process on the website, Healthcare.gov, before the deadline.
"We will probably need to wait for the big picture until after
The department's survey showed a large spike in last-minute enrollees.
Other states that opted to let the federal government run their insurance marketplaces, including
The most recent federal data showed that 77,867 Tennesseans and 55,034 Alabamians signed up for coverage between October and February.
Health analysts have said it will be tricky to track the number of people who actually paid premiums and stayed on plans. Insurers typically must wait three months after premium payments are due to kick someone off a plan.
Besides that, the individual insurance market is traditionally more fluid, with people dropping plans for various reasons -- they got coverage from an employer or qualified for
For those who bought Blue Cross Blue Shield Georgia plans -- one of two insurers that sold plans in
People who chose plans during the deadline extension weeks now have until
BlueCross BlueShield of
Company spokesman
The vast majority of Georgians who paid for plans -- about 104,242 -- were eligible for tax subsidies to put toward paying for their coverage, Hudgens said.
But that number is still just 18 percent of the estimated 654,000 Georgians who were eligible for the tax subsidies, an analysis by the
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