More than 116,000 people signed up for private insurance through Obamacare in the program's third year of open enrollment.
That's according to state officials who say the number ticked up slightly from the previous year's enrollment of 110,000 people. Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman said this was the most successful year yet. Many of the new enrollees hadn't previously been signed up.
"20,000 of these consumers we've never seen before, so they are fresh faces to us," Wyman said. "We've enrolled about 258,000 in Medicaid, 41,000 of them are new to our system...This is the most successful open enrollment that we've had and it means more residents have access to affordable healthcare."
Customers have three months to submit their verification documents and a couple weeks to pay their premiums in order to activate coverage. Officials said the goal this year is to start helping people use the insurance they now have.
