Some 195,000 Utahns signed up for health insurance under Obamacare for 2018 — nearly matching last year’s number, when the enrollment period was twice as long, the Trump administration reported Thursday.
About 130,000 people were expected to be covered in 2018 by Intermountain Healthcare SelectHealth, while University of Utah Health Plans signed up 25,000 in the six-week open enrollment period that ended Dec. 15, the insurers told The Salt Lake Tribune.
It was unclear Thursday why the enrollment numbers offered by Utah’s two remaining Obamacare insurers — for a combined 155,000 Utahns — fell significantly below the 195,000 signups that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was reporting for the state.