By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans have only a few more days to sign up for insurance plans created under President Barack Obama's healthcare law to ensure coverage starts on January 1, a deadline that could triple demand and strain enrollment systems. The pace of sign-ups has accelerated since October and November, when technical problems crippled the federal HealthCare.gov enrollment website, but is still far behind the Obama administration's goal of providing insurance to millions of people by the end of March. The upside is that many more people could get in under the wire." The administration has made late adjustments to help ensure people who need benefits on January 1 will not face a gap in health coverage. It has even urged insurers to allow retroactive coverage for people who enroll after January 1, while the deadline to pay for coverage depends on where enrollees live.
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