The Department of Health & Human Services has lowered its prediction for the number of enrollees from 13 million to 9-9.9 million for coverage through state and federal exchanges for 2015, reports Modern Healthcare. 

Multi-year insurance products on health insurance exchanges could prompt insurers to invest in more services with long-term benefits. This in turn, would reduce healthcare costs and some of those savings could result in lower premiums for consumers, according to a Health Affairs blog written by a senior scientist and policy researcher at Rand Corp.

The Supreme Court has agreed to another challenge of the Affordable Care Act—and will determine how far the federal government can extend its program of subsidies to buyers of health insurance, according to SCOTUSblog, the official blog of the U.S. Supreme Court. 

The Obama administration is planning to close a loophole in the Affordable Care Act which allows larger companies to refuse to cover in-patient hospital stays in their insurance plans, an anonymous source told USA Today.

The re-election of Republican governors in Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Maine and Kansas narrows prospects for Medicaid expansion in those states, according to Tampa Bay Times.

The Obama administration is set to ask Congress for about $6.2 billion in emergency funding to stem the spread of Ebola, reports Bloomberg.

Massachusetts and the federal government have reached a five-year, $41.4 billion healthcare accord, which will follow a three-year $26.75 billion waiver agreement that expired June 30, reports WBUR.

A data analysis by The New York Times reveals that more than 3 million people would have received insurance across 24 states if the Supreme Court had ruled differently in 2012.