Earlier this month, HHS announced more than 8 million people had signed up for health plans through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges, surpassing the Congressional Budget Office's initial projection of 7 million for the first year.
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The U.S. uninsured rate dropped from 15 percent in March to 13.4 percent in April, hitting its lowest point since January 2008, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
Hospital bed shortages delayed ambulances 37,000 hours in Los Angeles in 2013, which cost the city approximately $6 million, according to a report from Pacific-Palisades Patch.
Most Americans mistakenly believe the health reform law's insurance exchanges missed target enrollment numbers set by the government, according to poll results from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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The 2014 enrollment period for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges isn't over yet in at least eight states and the District of Columbia, according to a report from The Hill.
Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges reached 8 million enrollees.
The rates of five complications related to diabetes have decreased between 1990 and 2010, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
President Barack Obama has announced that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges have reached 8 million enrollees, according to a report from The Hill.
States that have embraced Medicaid expansion and have operated their own health insurance exchanges have seen greater declines in their uninsured rates, compared with states that haven't expanded Medicaid or set up their own exchanges, according to a Gallup poll.