More Connecticut consumers enrolled in private plans

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The chief information officer for the state’s health insurance marketplace says Connecticut is the only state that has so far enrolled more people in private insurance plans than Medicaid since open enrollment began Oct. 1.

Jim Wadleigh told members of the state’s Health Care Cabinet on Tuesday that the Access Health CT exchange has signed up about 6,000 people in private plans and about 4,700 in government-funded Medicaid coverage.

Wadleigh said larger enrollments in other states have been driven by expanded eligibility for Medicaid. Connecticut, however, first expanded Medicaid eligibility in 2010.