Colorado: Exchange QHPs break 124K as of 4/14 (UPDATE)

Hat Tip To: 
deaconblues

It took me a few minutes to figure out why, at this point, Colorado would issue a formal press release with a "final" number when there's still a day and a half to go. However, I realized that it probably simply means that practically everyone who qualified for the 4/15 extension has already done so by now; presumably they're already over 124K and there's only a few hundred partial applications left anyway, so their final tally will come in somewhere between 124K - 125K, thus allowing them to confidently release the news.

On the down side, if this "winding down" effect is true in most other states, it also suggests that instead of one final mini-spike, the 4/15 deadline will actually result in a severe drop-off, making the final total more like 7.7M instead of 7.8M, but that's fine as well.

In any event, CO is up another 3,000 exchange QHPs since last week to over 124K total.

UPDATE 4/14: From a Denver Post article on the same topic:

About 500 small employers participated in the Small Business Marketplace, or SHOP, which saw 220 enroll, covering 1,860 employees and family members.

That's a whopping increase of...90 people. Still, every one counts...

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