{"id":12475,"date":"2018-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/02\/sign-up-season-begins-on-healthcare-gov\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:00:59","slug":"sign-up-season-begins-on-healthcare-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/02\/sign-up-season-begins-on-healthcare-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign-Up Season Begins on HealthCare.gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Insurers are expanding their participation in the program<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, Nov. 2, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The federal government website where Americans can sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is up and running, officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Before HealthCare.gov went live for the sixth sign-up season, it had to be updated with thousands of changes in plans and premiums, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prior to every open enrollment, final preparations must take place ahead of the start of the open enrollment period to ensure the website runs smoothly for consumers,&#8221; said a statement from the Centers for Medicare &#038; Medicaid Services.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, average premiums for 2019 are limited to low single-digit percentages, but premiums will decrease in some states and for some types of plans, the <i>AP<\/i> reported. Insurers are expanding their participation in the program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/a8b2d2516eaf4e2b8c0f4a73a581ebbe\" target=\"_new\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthCare.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurers are expanding their participation in the program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-12475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}