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Obamacare health insurance cooperatives are pushing federal officials to make it easier for the nascent plans to get significant private funding to stay solvent. A major obstacle is determining how and when those loans would be paid back and if government loans would be repaid after any private loans or investments. Representatives from the nonprofit insurers were in Washington this week to meet with federal officials, including HealthCare.gov CEO Kevin Counihan. (Pradhan, 2/10)

This tax season offers a new wrinkle as individual filers must report to the IRS whether they had health insurance during 2014. The requirement brings a new task for MNsure, too, since the state’s health insurance exchange must send more than 30,000 tax forms to people who bought private coverage last year. (Snowbeck, 2/10)

Nearly 1 million Texans have now signed up for health insurance on the federal marketplace, known as healthcare.gov. But Texas, and 33 other states that did not create their own exchanges, will be the most vulnerable if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the Obama administration in the latest lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act, health policy experts say. (Walters, 2/10)

Is repealing the Affordable Care Act an issue of manhood? A state representative in Missouri suggested as much in a resolution asking members of the state’s congressional delegation to undo the law. The bill, introduced by State Representative Mike Moon, a Republican, insists that “each member of the Missouri congressional delegation endeavor with ‘manly firmness’ and resolve to totally and completely repeal the Affordable Care Act, settling for no less than a full repeal.” The macho language raised the eyebrows of Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who has been a defender of the law. (Rappeport, 2/10)