Enrollment

Sylvia Burwell said this week that HHS doesn't have "the legal authority to establish pregnancy as an exceptional circumstance to create a special enrollment period.

Enroll America is now unenrolling.

The number of individuals who now receive their health insurance via one of the private exchanges has doubled in the past year, from 3 million in 2014 to 6 million this year.

About 6 million people got health insurance coverage via such online portals this year, up from 3 million in 2014.

Federal PPACA health insurance exchanges attracted five times more growth than did state exchanges for the 2015 insurance year and experienced significantly less attrition among those enrolled last year.

Health insurers have increased the number of private Medicare plan enrollees they cover in the past year, in spite of complaints about changes in the way the government pays insurers.