UnitedHealth Group Inc. may offer investors a peek behind the health care overhaul curtain when it announces its third-quarter results on Thursday.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR: Enrollment started earlier this month for the largely online health insurance exchanges that play a leading role in the overhaul's push to expand insurance coverage to millions of people.

Individuals can sign up for 2014 coverage sold by private insurers like UnitedHealth on these exchanges, and many will receive help paying for the coverage thanks to income-based subsidies. Several reports say enrollment so far has been slowed by technical glitches involving the exchanges.

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