Thanks to the extended Obamacare enrollment plan, taxpayers will get some more time to lag on getting health insurance to avoid penalties for the 2015 tax year.

As the tax season extension began Feb. 23, California Officials said more than 18,000 people have signed up for a private health plan. With the deadline being April 30 with people claiming they were didn’t know of the Affordable Care Act’s financial penalties for being uninsured, the number of Californians to join is likely going to rise.

Adrian Figueroa, 20, an ethnics study major at Mt. San Antonio College, recently had a appendicitis that warranted his health care. “It took me a while to actually go to the hospital because I thought I didn’t had any health care. And since I did have supposedly any insurance what so ever, I could declare Emergency Medical, and they would pay either for all of is or most of it.”

The penalty for being uninsured in 2014 is $95 per adult or 1 percent of modified adjusted gross income. For 2015, the penalty is $325 per adult in a household, or 2 percent of their income.

Uninsured people are unable to avoid a health-law penalty for lacking coverage in 2014. But there’s still time to do something for the 2015 tax year.

“When I went to the doctors, without any insurance, it costed a lot,” said Figueroa, who is not willing to pay the $95 per adult. “Health care is a joke. How you can’t see a doctor until you finally pay off the whole amount for the year, you can’t legitimately see a doctor until you it pay off. By the time you make pasyments on it, it’s already the next year. So we’re making money off nothing.”

The year-round policy outside of the enrollment from Medical requires people to have gone through a divorce, having a child, or losing employer coverage.

Peter Lee, executive director of the Covered California exchange, said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that while there is no way in getting past 2014 tax problems, “It’s not too late to avoid a penalty for 2015.”

“Some people are just now discovering that being uninsured can be an expensive proposition. We don’t want there to be any surprises.”