Pa. Obamacare enrollments said to surge ahead of deadline

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Source: Patriot News

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Enrollments under the federal health care law in Pennsylvania surged before the deadline to sign up for insurance that takes effect in January, health care advocates said Monday.

Advocates and insurers in Pennsylvania reported increasing activity in recent days, and were holding enrollment events at places including a YMCA outside Philadelphia and a community center in the city.

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Antoinette Kraus of the Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania Health Access Network said that more than half of all the enrollments the organization has helped complete since October happened over the past week.

"We've seen a big surge in folks that are ... not panicking, but they really want health coverage by Jan. 1," Kraus said.


Read more: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/12/pa_obamacare_enrollments_said.html

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2. It is a deadline to be covered by January 1st

You can still sign up as late as March, but if you want to be covered on January 1st, then you need to get your paper work in at last a week before then (December 23rd). After all, don't you have to at least choose the plan and pay for it before you are covered?

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3. The way things are going, there will be new deadlines in a few hours.