The ACA Open Enrollment Period for Healthcare.gov ends at 11:59pm on January 15th — that is this coming Saturday.
After the Open Enrollment Period, getting individual market health insurance gets a whole lot harder. After January 15th, you need a Qualifying Life Event (QLE) to open up a Special Enrollment Period to get coverage. A QLE is a major change in your life like a birth, death, marriage, move or loss of coverage.
As of this morning, the ACA markets are running at a record volume with over 13 million sign-ups. Get signed up by Saturday and save yourself some headaches.
J.
David, change “December 15th” to “January 15th” in the first line of your post. :-)
Baud
Good.
Ohio Mom
How time flies! I sent a version of last year’s post on the ACA enrollment period to a few uninsured friends, at least one of whom used this information and later thanked me. But that was a year ago? I guess so.
lowtechcyclist
@J.: Thought maybe he’d been joyriding in the DeLorean again. ;-)
Parmenides
I wonder what the effect of semi random opening of the enrollment period, say for a week every three or four months, nothing so you could exactly time your cancer diagnosis but would swoop people up who either forgot or didn’t understand the subsidy and thought they were too poor and so on.
Second thought, why don’t we automatically enroll children in Medicaid when their born for the first year of their life. Would probably greatly improve outcomes.
David Anderson
@Parmenides: that is actually a really nifty idea.
Unique uid
Your post last week had several comments asking for Medicare signup information/guidance.
I’ll add my voice to that, become eligible this summer. After forty years of employer provided insurance, I don’t have any insurance picking skills.
Back in November a Juicer mentioned their Advantage plan included a rebate of Part B costs. I didn’t even know that was a possibility. Another said they had that, plus some foreign travel coverage.
Thanks for any help you could offer.