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Year Three of open enrollment for private health insurance plans starts Sunday. MNsure officials expect to be busier than ever. Unlike last year, there's not much speculation this year about whether the state's online health insurance marketplace will crash, or whether its call center will have unacceptably long wait times. MNsure turned in a respectable performance a year ago following a disastrous open enrollment in Year One. (Zdechlik, 10/30)

Round three of Obamacare began Thursday in a crowded church off Cleveland's East Avenue. That's the spot government officials and health care advocates chose to launch a campaign to enroll hundreds of thousands of uninsured Ohioans over the next several weeks. This year, they will have more than clergy and community volunteers on their side. In Northeast Ohio, premiums for plans offered through the state's health care exchange are down 6.3 percent, a reduction officials hope will significantly boost enrollment. (Ross, 10/30)

Many Indiana consumers who get their health insurance through the federal health care law can expect to pay less in the coming year, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The cost of health insurance under the President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act is expected to climb across much of the U.S. — in some cases by double digits. (10/29)

Nearby states are doing better than Virginia when it comes to children with health insurance, according to a report that shows the uninsured rate of children nationally reaching a historic low of 6 percent since implementation of national health care reform. (Crowe, 10/29)

The number of uninsured children in Georgia dropped by nearly 50,000 after the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014, a new report has found. But the state’s 189,000 children who remain uninsured make Georgia’s rate relatively high – 7.6 percent, versus 6 percent nationally. (Miller, 10/29)