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As Trump plans ACA repeal, HealthCare.gov enrollment tops 1 million

Modern Healthcare: Despite a surge in enrollment in HealthCare.gov coverage the day after the presidential election, plan selections for the first two weeks of open enrollment are just slightly ahead of last year's. More than 1 million people have selected a plan through the HealthCare.gov marketplace in the first two weeks of open enrollment, the CMS said Wednesday.About a fourth of those plan selections were made by new marketplace customers, while the rest were made by shoppers returning to the exchange to renew their health coverage for 2017.Enrollment is moving at a slightly quicker pace than last year. Shoppers have made 53,000 more plan selections during the first 12 days of open enrollment this year than last year, the CMS said Wednesday.

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