Just days ahead of the next Obamacare sign-up period, the Department of Health and Human Services is scaling back projections of how many people will be enrolled by the end of next year. An on Monday projects between 9 million and 9.9 million individuals will be enrolled in health insurance plans obtained via an Affordable Care Act exchange by the end of 2015. That's up to 4 million fewer people than estimated by the Congressional Budget Office in April. HHS also reported that 7.1 million people were fully enrolled as of Oct. 15, a decline of about 200,000 from August. On net, the projection amounts to just 1.9 million to 2.8 million additional customers in private health insurance obtained...
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