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Scott Leitz, interim CEO of MNSure, responds to a question during news conference at MNSure's offices in St. Paul, Minn., Monday, March 31, 2014. Monday is the open enrollment deadline for signing up for insurance under the health care act. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)
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Loretha Cager talks with an applicant at MNSure's call center in St. Paul, Minn., Monday, March 31, 2014. Monday is the open enrollment deadline for signing up for insurance under the health care act. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)
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Joshua Truax talks with an applicant at MNSure's call center in St. Paul, Minn., Monday, March 31, 2014. Monday is the open enrollment deadline for signing up for insurance under the health care act. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)
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Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds, who is pushing the Virginia legislature for mental health-care reform, speaks during a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, March 31, 2014. Last November, Deeds was attacker by his son, Austin "Gus" Deeds at their rural homestead in Bath County, his son then killed himself. The younger Deeds had been released the previous day from an emergency custody order because a psychiatric bed could not be found for him. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds, who is pushing the Virginia legislature for mental health-care reform, pauses while speaking during a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, March 31, 2014. Last November, Deeds was attacker by his son, Austin "Gus" Deeds at their rural homestead in Bath County, his son then killed himself. The younger Deeds had been released the previous day from an emergency custody order because a psychiatric bed could not be found for him. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds, who is pushing the Virginia legislature for mental health-care reform, speaks during a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, March 31, 2014. Last November, Deeds was attacker by his son, Austin "Gus" Deeds at their rural homestead in Bath County, his son then killed himself. The younger Deeds had been released the previous day from an emergency custody order because a psychiatric bed could not be found for him. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Shareda Green, left, meets with Barbara Bloomfield a volunteer with the Pennsylvania Health Access Network to begin the process of signing up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, Monday, March 31, 2014, at Project HOME's St. Elizabeth’s Community and Wellness Center in Philadelphia. With the deadline’s just hours away to sign up for insurance in the first enrollment period under President Barack Obama’s signature health care law health care advocates in Pennsylvania were pushing Monday to get as many people as possible to sign up. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Erik Furness meets with Antoinette Kraus with the Pennsylvania Health Access Network to begin the process of signing up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, Monday, March 31, 2014, at Project HOME's St. Elizabeth’s Community and Wellness Center in Philadelphia. Furness, a 47-year-old barber says he wasn’t procrastinating, but needed to get his tax paperwork finished first. The deadline's just hours away to sign up for insurance in the first enrollment period under President Barack Obama's signature health care law. Health care advocates in Pennsylvania were pushing Monday to get as many people as possible to sign up. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Erik Furness meets with Antoinette Kraus with the Pennsylvania Health Access Network to begin the process of signing up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, Monday, March 31, 2014, at Project HOME's St. Elizabeth’s Community and Wellness Center in Philadelphia. Furness, a 47-year-old barber says he wasn’t procrastinating, but needed to get his tax paperwork finished first. The deadline's just hours away to sign up for insurance in the first enrollment period under President Barack Obama's signature health care law. Health care advocates in Pennsylvania were pushing Monday to get as many people as possible to sign up. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Charles Ellis, 53, of Salt Lake City, right, works with navigator Luis Rios while seeking help to buy health insurance at the Utah Health Policy Project Monday, March 31, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Ellis said he doesn’t feel he needs insurance but was signing up to avoid a penalty. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Matt Glimme, a cook from Madison, works with application counselor Lauren Meyers to sign up for health insurance on Monday, March, 31, 2014, in Madison, Wis. Monday was the open enrollment deadline for most people seeking health insurance to sign up and avoid a penalty. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)
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An employee of Connect For Health Colorado, the state's health care exchange, explains options and procedures to a walk in client signing up for insurance on the last day before fines are imposed, in Denver, Monday March. 31, 2014. Colorado has already exceeded baseline federal goals for enrollment. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Michelle Decker, left, an employee of Connect For Health Colorado, the state's health care exchange, explains options and procedures to Virginia and Jose Sotelo, who signed up for insurance on the last day before fines are imposed, in Denver, Monday, March. 31, 2014. Colorado has already exceeded baseline federal goals for enrollment. As of last week, 106,000 Coloradans had signed up for private insurance since the exchange opened in October. Another 151,000 had enrolled in Medicaid. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Elizabeth Hernandez, left, a navigator for the Affordable Care Act helps Giao Phan sign up for health insurance at the East Orange Community Center, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Orlando, Fla. Monday is the open enrollment deadline for signing up for insurance under the health care act. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Elizabeth Hernandez, right, a navigator for the Affordable Care Act helps Giao Phan sign up for health insurance at the East Orange Community Center, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Orlando, Fla. Monday is the open enrollment deadline for signing up for insurance under the health care act. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
