Just in time for Christmas, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday night yet another significant change to President Obama’s health care program.

In the latest move, Sebelius revealed in a letter to six Democratic senators that HHS would allow individuals who have had their plans cancelled to avoid the individual mandate penalty in 2014, or alternatively let them purchase a catastrophic plan through the health care exchanges. Catastrophic plans are otherwise limited to people younger than 30.

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