California sees Obamacare surge as open enrollment ends for 2014

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California sees Obamacare surge as open enrollment ends for 2014

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/california-sees-obamacare-surge-open-enrollment-ends-2014-174846661--sector.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/z9aCOr31lqzGaEvM6z2toA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-04-17T174846Z_1_CBREA3G1DHC00_RTROPTP_2_USA-HEALTHCARE-TECHNOLOGY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A man looks over the Affordable Care Act signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this photo illustration" align="left" title="A man looks over the Affordable Care Act signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this photo illustration" border="0" /></a>Thanks to a final April surge, California's Obamacare marketplace enrolled a total of 1.4 million people in private health insurance plans, state officials announced on Thursday, beating a federal forecast by just over 800,000 enrollees. California's Obamacare enrollments are among 7.5 million people nationally who have signed up, according to federal officials. Peter V. Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's Obamacare health insurance marketplace, called that &quot;a huge number&quot; and said enrollees &quot;are part of history.&quot; The country's first open enrollment period for coverage under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law ended in most states on March 31. California and a handful of others kept their doors open longer, citing technical difficulties that kept some customers from accessing Obamacare websites.</p><br clear="all"/>

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