The first yearly sign-up period for Obamacare closes today, with early returns suggesting the administration may reach a projection of 7 million enrollees made before the U.S. health exchange struggled at its startup.
More than 1.1 million people visited the federal Obamacare website Monday, the second most ever, as Americans try to beat a March 31 deadline to obtain health insurance or risk a fine.
A report to be released today by the Health and Human Services Department recommends that the agency that runs Medicare recalculate its payments to dialysis centers to reflect current trends in drug acquisition costs.
Obamacares requirement that all Americans carry insurance or face penalties, part of the effort to gain universal coverage, may not be much of a rule at all.
PPACA opponents predicted early on that insurance co-ops created by the law would fail, and that much of the $2.1 billion they were loaned to get started would be lost.