Call this the world edition of Storeylines, where the International Date Line isn't just a global version of Tinder (rim shot).

Anyway, you might have missed this first little nugget over all the court rulings lately, but maybe that was the point. If you think your state had it bad when it came time to open up the exchanges – here's looking at you, Oregon – try running one from an island.

Or, more specifically, one of this country's stepchildren we call territories. Not that you've seen it on the evening news, but officials in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have been begging for help from the feds for months amid concerns the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was "undermining the stability of the territories' health insurance markets."

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