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About 400,000 people signed up for private health insurance under PPACA since a deadline passed that was initially supposed to end enrollment.

A Republican alternative should be voted on before lawmakers leave Washington for a month-long recess in August.

Doctors denounced the accuracy and value of data listing $77 billion in Medicare payments to 880,000 medical providers, while consumer and industry groups said it could make the health-care system more cost-effective.

Non-medical issuers wonder why they should have to fund DC Health Link.

The Republicans had said they would release the outlines of their proposal to replace President Barack Obamas 2010 health care law over the two-week congressional break later this month at town-hall meetings with constituents.

A welcome relief from rising health care costs for consumers is being less warmly received at the Federal Reserve.