ObamaCare racks up more than 600,000 signups in its first four days

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The GOP has been trying to take down ObamaCare from the start. But new numbers show the Affordable Care Act is far from dead.

More than 600,000 people signed up for health-care plans in the first four days of HealthCare.gov's open enrollment, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday. Nearly a quarter of those signups came from new enrollees.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.