
With just two weeks left in 2015's open enrollment period, close to 395,000 consumers either signed up for or renewed health insurance coverage during week four November 22-28, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Of those, 36 percent were new consumers and 64 percent were consumers renewing their coverage. So far this year, a little more than 2 million people have enrolled and the total applications submitted for this period is close to 3.5 million.
[Also: Another half million consumers sign up in week 3 of open enrollment]
Both call centers and healthcare.gov continued to see heavy traffic, with about 515,000 people contacting call centers, including Spanish-speaking representatives, and more than 2 million consumers logging on to healthcare.gov or its Spanish-language counterpart this week alone.
Overall, those websites have seen almost 8.9 million visitors during this year's open enrollment period.
This year's open enrollment period ends on December 15.
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