Open Enrollment 2024 Health Insurance. Open enrollment period is the designated time each year when you can purchase and apply for health insurance for the upcoming year, without a qualifying event. 16, 2024, in most states — but if you want coverage by new year's day, you need to choose benefits by 5 a.m.

1, 2024, make sure to purchase a plan by dec. The enrollment period for private health insurance through the affordable care act (aca, also known as obamacare) marketplace is going on right now, and ends, for most people, on december 15.