(Bloomberg) Consumers waiting until the last minute to buy health coverage under Obamacare received a reprieve as a record 1 million users visited the U.S. online insurance marketplace.
The deadline to enroll in health plans that begin Jan. 1 was extended to midnight today from yesterday for most of the U.S., the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said. The extension was announced as healthcare.gov yesterday experienced a single-day record number of visits and consumers were moved into a queuing system deployed when the website approaches 50,000 simultaneous users.
