Americans signed up for Obamacare at a brisk pace for a second straight week, an early sign that Republican efforts to repeal or undermine the law earlier this year may have backfired.
Americans enrolled in almost 1.5 million Affordable Care Act health plans on healthcare.gov in the first 11 days of the open enrollment period, a 47 percent increase over a similar period last year.
The numbers came out just as Republican lawmakers made a last-minute addition to their tax bill that would eliminate the law's requirement that all Americans have coverage or pay a fine — a policy known as the individual mandate.
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