PPACA penalty deadline could move

An official refused to talk about the general open enrollment deadline.

By Arthur D. Postal, Allison Bell | Updated on October 21, 2013

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.

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