This year sign-ups for private health plans in California, New York and other states that opted to build and run their own insurance markets has stagnated.

The biggest entitlement legislation in a generation is causing barely a ripple in corporate America.

Enrollment closed Feb. 15 for coverage through health plans offered on the marketplace created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Obamacares startup health insurance plans are flirting with financial distress, as all but five of the 23 nonprofit companies had negative cash flow from operations in the first three quarters of 2014

Congress should split the agency that runs Obamacare and Medicare from the Department of Health and Human Services to keep the White House from having too much influence over its operation, Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch said.

The Obama administrations push to transform the way the United States pays for health care is splitting the medical profession.

The penalty is designed to encourage people to sign up for health insurance using the expanded options and financial assistance available under the law. The penalty would apply to about 2 percent to 4 percent of all taxpayers for 2014.

The government has said it expects 9.1 million people to be paying for coverage in 2015.