Thursday, February 5, 2015
The enrollment figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Health & Human Services Department show more than 174,000 people signed up for a new plan or had an existing plan that renewed.
In the first Affordable Care Act open enrollment period that ended last March 31, 120,000 Arizonans signed up.
The department for the first time provided a breakdown for the state's two major metropolitan areas. Nearly 120,000 people in metropolitan Phoenix signed up for insurance, while the Tucson area had more than 27,000 signups.
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