Obama administration officials are getting praise for trying to respond to consumer and employer concerns with the latest PPACA delays, but they're getting attacked on their math.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has addressed complaints that some of the new public exchange plan provider networks are too small by proposing a new work review process.

The Obama administration seems to be considered letting individuals who are happy with old individual policies that fail to comply with Patient Protection and Affordable Care coverage standards keep the policies until the end of 2016. 

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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.