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The Obama administration is warning 310,000 consumers to send in documentation proving theyre citizens or legal residents, or forfeit their PPACA coverage at the end of next month.

Already, some hospitals have failed to meet meaningful-use guidelines by the July 1, 2014 deadline.

Fresh Unlimited Inc. wont have to provide contraceptive coverage for its employees under the health-care reform law, in what may be among the first exemptions granted since a June U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

President Barack Obama signed a bill into law that gives the secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department new powers to fire agency executives for misconduct, saying it will ensure a culture of accountability.

Roughly 90 percent of the 30 million or so Americans still uninsured by 2016 wont have to pay a penalty.

There are now so many exemptions to PPACAs individual mandate that the CBO says the number who would face fines for lack of coverage has dropped from seven million to four million.