Obamacare enrollment held steady in its second week thanks to a majority of people re-enrolling in their plans.
About 534,778 signed up for Obamacare using healthcare.gov, which residents in more than 30 states use to get health coverage. That number is about the same as last week’s initial total, and brings the total number of enrollees to nearly 1.1 million.
For the second week in a row, a majority of those enrollees were consumers renewing their coverage.
About 65 percent were re-enrolling, with 35 percent new customers. Those are about the same totals as last week.
However, the number of new enrollees at more than 360,000 is about the same as this point last year.
The Obama administration has set modest enrollment goals for 2016, hoping to have 10 million people get coverage by the end of next year. That is about the same amount who paid for their coverage, according to the latest update from the administration.
The agency told the Washington Examiner that this will be the first year where “we expect there to be more plan selections from returning consumers than new enrollees,” spokesman Aaron Albright said. “We’ll continue to encourage every consumer with coverage through the Marketplace to come back and review their coverage options for 2016 because there could be a plan offered this year that better meets their financial or health needs.”
