The new deadline to sign up is 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday.

Since the launch of Obamacare, D.C.’s rate of uninsured residents went down from 7.6 percent in 2010 to 5.28 percent in 2014.

To be more exact, 12,294 individual accounts and 426 small business (meaning there are fewer than 50 full-time employees) accounts have been created.

The site for the D.C. Health Link had 15,452 unique visitors on Tuesday, with 4,121 individuals and families making accounts, as well as 136 employers (businesses with fewer than 50 full-time employees). Numbers for yesterday weren’t released.

American is the first university or college in D.C. to offer these benefits.

D.C. has moved to ban insurers from charging smokers higher premiums on insurance plans they get through the new health exchange mandated by President Obama’s health care reform law.

A D.C. councilmember took to Twitter yesterday to lambast a colleague for his vote against a bill and accuse him of doing the bidding of his former employer.

Personal and business customers of health insurance plans across the United States are owed quite a large sum of money—$1.1 billion, in fact. The rebate comes from a provision of the Affordable Care Act.

A bartender at Trusty’s who took eight stab wounds after defending a patron from a mugger needs some help paying his medical bills.

The health care insurance industry is meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel today for its National Policy Forum conference, and reform activists are busy taking to the streets of Washington as a result. A large group has gathered in Dupont Circle to hear from former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and other speakers. When that’s over, they plan to march to the Ritz-Carlton, so watch out for traffic delays and high pedestrian volume in the area….