The Obama administration conceded it might consider tweaking at least one Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchange application deadline.

Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, said during a press briefing today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services might be working on a fix for the conflict between the PPACA individual health insurance mandate penalty and the end of the open enrollment period.

Under the  public exchange program rules, to get 2014 exchange health coverage in place by Jan. 1, consumers must sign up for coverage by Dec. 15.

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