Enrollment

Carriers say they're expecting at least a 20 percent increase in enrollments, while some carriers anticipate enrollment to double in some states.

Being able to work with numbers turns out to be a much greater barrier to health insurance than illiteracy.

Cigna Corp. raised its profit forecast for the year as it added more customers to its health insurance plans.

The shift to outsourcing benefits administration is rapidly gaining momentum as more employers slim down staff and hand off complicated administrative issues to outside experts.

Small businesses are dropping health insurance for their workers, as PPACA lets them send employees to new marketplaces where they can often get subsidies from the government to buy coverage.

SHOPs soft launch has begun.

Enrollment in Aetna plans reached 23.6 million in the quarter, an increase of 470,000 members from the second quarter. Aetna will offer coverage in 18 Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2015.

Though consumers say they understand health care and insurance, many lack basic knowledge and fail to ask questions about what theyre getting in their policy before they enroll.