As the 2014 open enrollment period draws to a close, the federal government and some states are working to get uninsured Americans signed up for coverage offered through the health insurance exchanges.
Earlier this week, CMS Administrator Marily Tavenner announced in a blog post that enrollment has hit 5 million. That's up from roughly 4.2 million enrollees as of March 1, according to HHS. Still, despite the possibility of a last-minute surge in enrollment, healthcare business advisory company Avalere Health has predicted the exchanges will enroll 5.4 million by March 31 (the end of open enrollment), falling short of the most recent Congressional Budget Office estimate of 6 million.
The Kaiser Family Foundation has broken down the number of people who have selected PPACA marketplace plans on a state-by-state level. As of March 1, here are the 10 fully or partially state-run exchanges that have enrolled the greatest percentages of their potentially eligible residents in exchange plans.
1. Vermont — 24,326 people have selected plans out of an estimated 45,000 eligible residents (54.1 percent).
2. Rhode Island — 18,902 out of 70,000 (27 percent)
3. Connecticut — 57,465 out of 216,000 (26.6 percent)
4. California — 868,936 out of 3,291,000 (26.4 percent)
5. Idaho — 43,861 out of 202,000 (21.7 percent)
6. Washington — 107,262 out of 507,000 (21.2 percent)
7. Michigan (state-federal partnership exchange) —144,587 out of 725,000 (19.9 percent)
8. New York — 244,618 out of 1,264,000 (19.4 percent)
9. Kentucky — 54,945 out of 302,000 (18.2 percent)
10. District of Columbia — 6,249 out of 36,000 (17.4 percent)
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