At this point, there's only so much the Obama administration can do to boost health plan enrollment. The proverbial low-hanging fruit has already been picked, as the millions of remaining Americans who lack insurance remain stubbornly committed to living without coverage.
At the end of the last open enrollment period, enrollment in the marketplace stood at 12.7 million.
A new analysis of enrollment in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) marketplace by the Kaiser Family Foundation attributes the plateauing enrollment to a number of factors, most of which are purely economic.
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