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Almost 13 Million Sign Up for Affordable Care

Millions of new enrollees signed up for health care coverage during the open enrollment period that ended Jan. 31, including many young people, who enrolled in higher percentages this year than in 2015.

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Lindsay Berlanga, center, site manager for Cognazante, helps Melissa Villareal, right, and her mother, Hortensia Villareal, rear, with registration for the Affordable Care Act during assistance hours at Bibliotech, the new digital public library in San Antonio, Friday, January 17, 2014.
Credit: Jennifer Whitney

Millions of new enrollees signed up for health care coverage during the open enrollment period that ended Jan. 31, including many young people, who enrolled in higher percentages this year than in 2015. (Becker’s Hospital Review)

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