Health Law Sign-Up Clock Ticks Down With Nearly 10 Million Enrolled

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Health Law Sign-Up Clock Ticks Down With Nearly 10 Million Enrolled  By Kerry Young With almost 10 million people already slated to get insurance through federal and state marketplaces, Obama administration officials urged Americans who have not yet arranged their medical coverage for 2015 to do so ahead of a Feb. 15 deadline for health law enrollment. Full story CDC Issues Alarm on Secondhand Smoke; Suggests Apartment Smoking Bans  By Paul Jenks The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week stated quite definitively that "no level of secondhand smoke exposure is safe." The statement is a highlight of a report on secondhand smoke, which the CDC claims kills more than 400 infants and 41,000 adult nonsmokers every year. The deaths stem from smoke-related Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, plus lung cancer and heart disease. Overall exposure to secondhand smoke is declining but the decline is not evenly spread across all groups, particularly for people living in rented housing. The report urges renewed state and local efforts to limit indoor smoking plus prohibitions on smoking in multi-unit housing complexes. Full story This Week: House Seeks to Repeal and Replace