Health insurance coverage is way up since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was implemented nearly two years ago. But the Obama administration says it is far from done with its expansion efforts.

Unfortunately for the Department of Health and Human Services, the first 17.6 million were the easiest.

“Those who are still uninsured are going to be a bigger challenge,” HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Tuesday in remarks to the Howard University College of Medicine.

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