The Biden administration extended the enrollment period for 2025 healthcare coverage via the Affordable Care Act marketplace by three days in an effort to boost lagging signups, Axios reported Tuesday.
For coverage set to begin Jan. 1, the Biden administration kept open the enrollment period through Wednesday; the original deadline was Sunday.
"I think we'll continue to see until the very last minute that they're going to be beating the drum to encourage people to get the coverage that they're eligible for," Sabrina Corlette, co-director of Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms, told Axios.
The ACA, or Obamacare, saw 21.3 million people enroll for 2024, which topped 2023 enrollment by nearly five million. Enrollment for 2025, however, is down 32%, USA Today reported.
The decrease in enrollment correlates with the incoming Trump administration and a Republican Congress, according to one poll. President-elect Donald Trump, as he did in 2016, ran on a platform of promoting competition to the ACA and enhancing flexibility and choice and reversing the Biden-Obama-era healthcare policies. Republicans could also ax the Biden-era subsidies for marketplace coverage when they're up for renewal.
A survey earlier this month found that 55% of respondents said the uncertainty with what Trump and a Republican Congress might do with the ACA and healthcare might impact their enrollment to Obamacare, according to USA Today.
Biden’s 11th-hour push to reverse that is a legacy play, according to Corlette.
"It's clearly something that the president sees as one of his major accomplishments of his administration," she told Axios.
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