Connecticut has already reached its health care exchange goal of enrolling 100,000 residents by March 31.
Access Health CT, which was created as a result of the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare, had 121,983 enrollees as of Sunday, according to the Hartford Courant.
The majority have signed up for Medicaid.
“When the exchange launched in October, we said our goal was to enroll 100,000 Connecticut consumers by the end of open enrollment on March 31st,” Access Health CT”™s CEO Kevin Counihan said, according to the Courant.
“We are thrilled to have reached that goal seven weeks early; however, our work does not end here. Our outreach and engagement efforts will be just as aggressive and active during the remaining open enrollment period so we can provide quality, more affordable health care coverage to as many Connecticut consumers as possible.”
The enrollment figures include 50,665 who bought private insurance plans and 71,318 who were eligible for Medicaid, the federally funded coverage for low-income people. That factors to 41.5 percent buying private plans and 58.5 percent who became eligible for Medicaid.
The tally includes 22,335 who signed up through the state Department of Social Services, not Access Health CT.
People numbering 50,665 learned they would be eligible for Medicaid starting Jan. 1 and an additional 22,335 were enrolled in Medicaid before Jan. 1.
