Health Care Reform

About 6,500 consumers are paying for private-plan coverage per week.

H.R. 7 would put permanent restrictions on exchange plans.

Lawmakers said they had to shut the public out of the session to avoid giving hackers clues.

The state's small-group website site won't be ready until 2015.

Though health reform in Massachusetts resulted in substantial gains in coverage, the system still suffers health care inequalities.

Republican U.S. senators opposed to Obamacare said the best alternative would be a narrower system of tax credits for Americans to buy health insurance without any of the mandates for people or companies to participate.