The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released detailed data on the 2017 open enrollment period, running from November 1, 2016, through January 31, 2016, for the health insurance marketplaces. They show the largest concentrations of people buying insurance through the marketplace were in the Lakewood-Toms River area in Ocean County and in Union City, North Bergen, and West New York in Hudson County. Lakewood has 3,642 on the plan. While the greatest change in the law would significantly restructure Medicaid funding, which could cost 500,000 New Jerseyans their coverage, there are also provisions in the American Health Care Act that passed the House earlier this month that would affect those buying insurance in the marketplace. Read more at NJ.com
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