About 201,000 Maryland residents will be eligible for financial assistance from the federal government to help pay their health insurance premiums next year if they purchase a plan from the state exchange

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The director of the agency running Maryland’s health insurance exchange said Tuesday that officials there are dissatisfied with the performance of Maryland’s health insurance website.

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ANNAPOLIS — More than 3,100 Maryland households have chosen to enroll through the state’s online marketplace for health insurance. The Maryland Health Connection released updated numbers relating to enrollment on Friday. That’s more than three weeks after the website first ...

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WASHINGTON — Crammed into conference rooms with pizza for dinner, some programmers building the Obama administration’s showcase health insurance website were growing increasingly stressed. Some worked past 10 p.m., energy drinks in hand. Others rewrote computer code over and over ...

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Maryland Health Connection is chugging along. As of Friday, there were twice as many households enrolled in one of the exchange's plans as a week ago, bringing the total number of enrollees to 2,393 — according to figures released Friday by Maryland Health Benefit Exchange.

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s internal projections called for strong enrollment in the states in the first year of new health insurance markets, according to unpublished estimates obtained by The Associated Press. Whether those expectations will bear out is unclear. ...

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One of Maryland’s six health care groups contracted to enroll Marylanders in Obamacare health insurance plans has found a way around computer glitches the state has been experiencing since the health insurance exchange opened Oct. 1 – they’re going back to paper.

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ANNAPOLIS — Fixing glitches on Maryland’s online marketplace could continue for as long as another month and a half, Gov. Martin O’Malley said Friday, comparing the effort to dealing with a hurricane or a snowstorm. Still, he said improvements are ...

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Officials said Monday that 13,532 Marylanders created identity-verified accounts on the new state-run health insurance exchange, 566 applications for coverage had been submitted and another 326 people had enrolled in coverage as of midnight on Oct. 6.

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WASHINGTON — It’s the No. 1 question about President Barack Obama’s health care law: Will consumers be able to afford the coverage? Now the answer is coming in. The biggest study yet of premiums posted by states finds that the ...

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