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TomCADem

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Tue Dec 17, 2013, 01:18 AM Dec 2013

Obamacare Enrollment Jumps 34% In New York [View all]

Source: NY Daily News

State officials reported Monday that enrollments in New York State of Health, the state's insurance marketplace, surged 34% in just the past week.

As of 9 a.m. Monday, 363,258 New Yorkers had completed their applications on the state’s health care exchange and 134,622 people had gone on to select coverage.

Of those obtaining coverage, 95,196 obtained private insurance and the rest qualified for Medicaid.

“We are very pleased to see that since the launch of NY State of Health on October 1, almost 135,000 New Yorkers have enrolled in quality, low-cost health insurance, and over 363,000 have completed applications and are eligible for insurance,” Donna Frescatore, executive director of NY State of Health, said. “We are seeing tremendous activity, and in the last week alone enrollments have increased by about 34 percent."


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/12/obamacare-enrollment-jumps-34-in-new-york

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