About 3.3 million people have signed up for private insurance through President Obama’s health care law as of Feb. 1, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services, but the number is still lagging behind the administration’s original forecast.

In September 2013, weeks before the opening of the new insurance exchanges, HHS projected that nearly 4.4 million would sign up for insurance through the exchanges by the end of January.

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