The deadline for Covered California applications is fast approaching: midnight on March 31.
The state is still strongly encouraging people to finish by that time. However, on Wednesday, Covered California announced that if you have an application in the works by March 31, you will have until April 15 to complete it.
Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, said health exchange enrollment has been surging ahead of the deadline.
This Monday and Tuesday, more than 39,000 people opened accounts and went all the way through to plan selection. That's more than in the whole month of October, he said.
Lee said he expects the computer systems to hold up fine.