Fewer Utahns signed-up for Affordable Care Act insurance through healthcare.gov this year, joining their peers nationally in an enrollment dip that follows a repeal of the tax penalty for those without insurance, know as the individual mandate.
Preliminary figures released Wednesday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, showed 194,813 Utahns enrolling in the marketplace through healthcare.gov, a decrease of roughly 300 compared to 2017. Those plans are used primarily by people who do not get their insurance through an employer.
Randall Serr, Director of Take Care Utah, said the enrollment count may increase in the final numbers, but will likely remain at or below the 2017 level.