Obamacare Sign-Ups Reach 2.84 Million as Deadline Nears

Ten days before the deadline to get health insurance through Obamacare, 2.84 million people have signed up through U.S.-run marketplaces, the government said Wednesday.

For the week that ended Dec. 5, the U.S. said that 804,338 people chose plans -- the biggest week of sign-ups since the markets opened on Nov. 1. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expects that millions more will be enrolled when people who had coverage for 2015 are automatically renewed this month, and when state-run markets, including California and New York, report their totals.