Healthcare.gov sign-ups approach 6.6 million

The federal Obamacare marketplace saw another slow holiday-interrupted week—but inched closer to official goals of enrolling more than 9 million people nationally in 2015. By last Friday, 6.59 million people had selected a health insurance plan or been automatically re-enrolled in an existing plan sold through HealthCare.gov, officials revealed Wednesday. From Dec. 27 through last Friday, a period that included New Year's Eve and day, just 102,896 people selected an insurance plan on HealthCare.gov, which serves the 37 states not running their own Obamacare marketplace, officials said.