Obamacare countdown: What you need to know about the March 31 deadline

[steve2470]

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-obamacare-two-weeks-left-what-you-need-to-know-20140317,0,6466676.story#axzz2wKRnmFSc

The buzzer is about to sound on Obamacare enrollment.

Less than two weeks are left to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the federal law that went into effect this year. It requires that most Americans have health insurance and provides government assistance to make coverage cheaper.

In California, more than 1 million people have already signed up for a private health plan in the state's health insurance exchange, Covered California.

There's a deadline coming up that has raised some questions. Here are some answers:

*more at link*

[polichick]

1. Wonder if you can sign up this month but...

have coverage start in the fall.

[jwirr]

2. A deadline to sign up? Yes I know it exists but it does not make sense. So everyone who is ever

going to be on ACA are either on it now or will be connected in some way to them? In almost all other government programs have ongoing enrollment. How do future people enroll in ACA?

This makes no sense to me.