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High Interest in ACA Insurance Coverage Sign Up

High Interest in ACA Insurance Coverage Sign Up

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Reports from across the country indicate more people signing up for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Kim Jones, with the Inter Lakes Community Action Partnership in Brookings, says the shorter sign up period is moving many people to come in…..

The sign up runs through December fifteenth. In past years, open enrollment extended through March.

Jones says their budget for outreach has been cut this year……

Also, the website used for signing up for insurance coverage, healthcare dot gov, is offline for twelve hours each weekend.

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