By Alex Wayne
Bloomberg) — Facing an end-of-the-month deadline, the U.S. government is increasing efforts to enroll millions more Americans into Obamacare, including appeals from President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle.
The Obama administration also is developing a strategy to communicate to Americans the penalty for going without insurance after March 31. People without insurance face fines of as much as 1% of their income, a penalty that hasn’t been mentioned in the government’s advertising.
About 4 million Americans have so far signed up for private health plans under the Affordable Care Act. As many as 3.5 million more have enrolled in Medicaid, according to Avalere Health, a Washington-based consulting firm. The administration’s success signing up more people in the last month of enrollment will have repercussions for insurers, who must set rates for 2015 by the end of May, and in congressional elections this November.
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