Customers On Obamacare Exchange Remain Steady
Open enrollment for plans that begin
At the end of last year's open enrollment, 115,000 people had signed up. Currently, about 100,000 people in
Most of the attrition -- which has been steady since Obamacare began -- is because customers never paid a first premium.
AccessHealth CT CEO
Ignorance about the health care system is a barrier in many ways for AccessHealth CT. Wadleigh said that 25 percent of former Obamacare customers the organization has surveyed think they still have insurance, even though they're no longer paying.
A majority of
This week, AccessHealth CT has realized they have an untapped market among more affluent
"We were not expecting to hear that," Wadleigh said. "We will course correct our outreach and our marketing."
Wadleigh also is hoping to persuade Anthem and
The Solo product's price is increasing by 38 percent, and 37,100 people are covered by that individual health insurance that is sold off the exchange.
It's possible that some of the people who were buying off the exchange were eligible for subsidies and didn't know it.
More than 10,000 people in
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