If you’re uninsured, you have until the end of today to sign up for a health plan that starts Jan. 1.
But if you don’t, there’s still time.
Technically, today is the deadline to sign up for health insurance that begins on New Year’s Day under the 2010 health care law.
But … the Obama administration persuaded insurance companies to , which means you could wait and sign up retroactively. And it quietly extended today’s deadline until 11:59 p.m. on Christmas Eve, .
(That was after the administration from mid-December too.)
And you can still sign up for insurance through the end of March, but in many cases it won’t begin until the first day of the following month.
All that said, you should probably sign up for insurance sooner rather than later. The federal health care website, HealthCare.gov, is working better now and has new features to .
And the longer you wait, the more people will be trying to sign up at the same time.
On Thursday, President Obama said , bringing the total so far to more than a million.
