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Amanda Deardorff, left, a health enrollment navigator with Open Door Health Solutions, helps Vicki Bonner through the process of signing up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act in Muncie, Ind., on Dec. 26, 2013. Nearly 17 percent of the state's population, or 911,674 people, lacks insurance. Most of those residents are required to show proof they've obtained insurance after March to avoid a penalty under the federal health care overhaul law. But the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says only about 30,400 residents had bought plans through the exchange in through the end of December. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
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Amanda Deardorff, left, a health enrollment navigator with Open Door Health Solutions, helps Vicki Bonner through the process of signing up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act in Muncie, Ind., on Dec. 26, 2013. Nearly 17 percent of the state's population, or 911,674 people, lacks insurance. Most of those residents are required to show proof they've obtained insurance after March to avoid a penalty under the federal health care overhaul law. But the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says only about 30,400 residents had bought plans through the exchange in through the end of December. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
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Amanda Deardorff, left, a health enrollment navigator with Open Door Health Solutions, helps Valerie Kazer through the process of signing up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act in Muncie, Ind., on Dec. 26, 2013. Nearly 17 percent of the state's population, or 911,674 people, lacks insurance. Most of those residents are required to show proof they've obtained insurance after March to avoid a penalty under the federal health care overhaul law. But the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says only about 30,400 residents had bought plans through the exchange in through the end of December. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
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Amanda Deardorff, left, a health enrollment navigator with Open Door Health Solutions, helps Valerie Kazer through the process of signing up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act in Muncie, Ind., on Dec. 26, 2013. Nearly 17 percent of the state's population, or 911,674 people, lacks insurance. Most of those residents are required to show proof they've obtained insurance after March to avoid a penalty under the federal health care overhaul law. But the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says only about 30,400 residents had bought plans through the exchange in through the end of December. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013 file photo, Sen. Trip Pittman, R-Daphne, talks with other lawmakers at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., The Republican from Daphne is trying to pass a bill requiring drug testing of welfare applicants with drug convictions in the last five years, and he says he proposed drug testing for legislators so they can lead by example. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)