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Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida Inc. paid the largest refund to policyholders and enrollees under the medical loss ratio provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2013, according to new data.

Government lawyers contend tax credits are available to consumers regardless of whether coverage was purchased on a state or federal exchange.

The principle deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would not promise that healthcare.gov will be fully ready in November, when people can start buying insurance plans for 2015.

The price tag for healthcare.gov, the PPACA website, is approaching $1 billion even as key features remain incomplete, congressional auditors said.

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives voted to sue President Barack Obamas administration over implementation of his 2010 health-care law.

Longer term, questions remain on whether the slowdown seen recently in health-care costs can be definitively tied to PPACA or whether it was the result of a slow recovery from the 2008-09 recession.