Mixed Messages Add Anxiety as Deadline Nears in Health Act

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/us/health-care-enrollment-deadline.html?_r=0&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1387659802-utiJ96xxHE/GiK+WofUwWw

For most Americans, Monday is the deadline to sign up for health insurance that takes effect on Jan. 1. It was supposed to be a turning point in the troubled history of the new health care law, the moment when the spotlight would shift from the federal government’s online marketplace to the insurance companies providing coverage to hundreds of thousands and eventually millions of people.

But as the date approaches, a series of decisions by the Obama administration to delay some of the law’s most important provisions and to extend some deadlines has caused uncertainty among insurers and confusion among consumers.