High traffic on the New York State of Health website is to be expected says the head of the state exchange.
The website could be slow over the next few days. Saturday is the deadline to sign up for insurance that starts the first of the year.
More than 194 thousand New Yorkers who didn’t have health insurance before November 15th now do.
Donna Frescatore is the Executive Director of the New York Health Benefit Exchange.
She says more than 40 thousand of those were added since last week.
"We do expect, as we've seen along the way, that as we get to very specific deadlines for coverage effective dates that the volume does tend to increase."
Frescatore says the call center for the exchange got a record number of calls Monday-33 percent more than on the last day of the previous open enrollment.
The last day of this second open enrollment period is February 15th.