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On October 1st, the first day of the government shutdown, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched Healthcare.gov, a four-hundred-million-dollar online marketplace designed to help Americans research and purchase health insurance. In its first days, only a small fraction of users could create an account or log in. [...] Read More »

One of the House Republicans’ top watchdogs issued a subpoena on Tuesday morning for all correspondence between government officials and the contractor picked to lead the repair process for the government’s troubled online health insurance marketplace. Read More »

Despite helping expanding affordable insurance, "Obamacare" maintains the patchwork U.S. healthcare system that will still mean high costs, weak plans and, in many cases, no insurance for millions of Americans. [...] Read More »

The White House obfuscates when it comes to Obamacare enrollment results. But some of the individual states that have established their own on-line exchanges (and sidestepped healthcare.gov) have been forthcoming... Read More »

Just six people were able to successfully enroll in health insurance through Healthcare.gov, the government's online marketplace, during the first 24 hours it was live. Just 242 people were able to enroll on the second day. Read More »

Enrollments continue to trickle in. Health plans, with the kind of market share that would have to sign-up 100,000 to 200,000 people for the administration to hit its goal of 7 million people, are generally reporting they have enrolled only about 100 – 200 people over the first 35 days via Healthcare.gov. Read More »

Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene will take over the volunteer job of overseeing ongoing fixes to the federal Obamacare marketplace HealthCare.gov starting Wednesday, officials said. Read More »