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Health insurance markets open today, but not many Illinoisans were able to view the plans

By Sun-Times Wire

Looks like I spoke too soon about the countdown being over.

More than 70,000 unique visitors made their way to the Get Covered Illinois online marketplace today to find out about new options for health insurance in the state, but many had trouble actually viewing how much these insurance rates would cost.

Read the Chicago Sun-Times story here.

That also means the Sun-Times wasn’t able to analyze whether the different insurance plans live up to the promise. But the HHS did send us a little more information here.

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