6 Million Get New Health Insurance in US

About 6 million people in the United States have new health insurance coverage, part of national health-care reforms taking full effect on New Year's Day. The government said that after three months of balky enrollment, more than 2 million people were able to buy new private insurance policies by the end-of-December deadline. The insurance coverage is part of President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement, the controversial Affordable Care Act, popularly called...

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