Newly Unemployed Scramble to Enroll in Obamacare in Time

Ian Phillips had an eight-hour heads up that the restaurant he manages was closing and he’d soon be without health insurance, a plan that covered not only him but his wife and two grown children.

“My wife was freaking out,” said Phillips, who worked at the Wilmington, N.C., location of the Dallas-based Tex-Mex restaurant chain On the Border, a company he had been with for 21 years.

Phillips is among the millions of people who joined the ranks of the unemployed in March as state officials shuttered businesses and issued stay-at-home orders in an attempt to stop the spread of ...