Commonwealth Fund January 28, 2021
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President Biden signed an executive order temporarily opening enrollment on the federal health insurance marketplace; the Trump administration had opted not to do this
The experiences of state-based marketplaces with special enrollment periods during COVID-19 suggests that larger shares of younger people use these signup periods to get coverage
Today, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to reopen the federal health insurance marketplace. Generally, marketplace enrollment outside the annual enrollment period is only available after specific life events, like aging off a parent’s health plan or losing job-based health insurance. Last year, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, most state-based marketplaces (SBMs) opened a special enrollment period (SEP) to allow people who had missed the annual window to...
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