The Obama administration is pushing back on doubts about the future of the Affordable Care Act individual insurance marketplace.

Despite withdrawals from the marketplace by major insurers and big premium increases for marketplace health plans, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said on Thursday that the marketplace remains stable.

Burwell told reporters that the marketplace would remain functional even in the absence of improvements by the next administration, the The New York Times reports.

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