COLUMBUS, Ohio – More than 234,000 Ohioans met Sunday’s deadline to re-enroll or sign up for the first time for health coverage through the federally run marketplace, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Those people “stuck in line” over the weekend will have until this Sunday to finish the enrollment process, according to a report in the Columbus Dispatch.
Some may qualify for a special enrollment period if they lose other coverage, get married or have a baby.
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In the Columbus metropolitan area, 38,780 people signed up for coverage.
Elsewhere in Ohio, 47,388 Ohioans signed up for coverage in the Cleveland-Elyria metropolitan area; 37,639 in the Cincinnati metropolitan area (including only those portions of the metro area in Ohio and Indiana); and 14,518 in the Dayton metropolitan area.
By comparison, about 155,000 Ohioans signed up for coverage during the 2013-14 open enrollment period.
Nationwide, an estimated 11.4 million people signed up for health coverage, with 8.6 million of them in states such as Ohio that opted to use healthcare.gov.