The head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services refused today to provide data on federal exchange plan enrollment activity until mid-November.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said today at a House hearing on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchange implementation that the department has no good enrollment data.

"The system isn't functioning, so we're not getting that data," Sebelius told Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., at the House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing. 

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.