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The Health Insurance Marketplace ("the Marketplace") plays a critical role in achieving one of the Affordable Care Act's goals of reducing the number of uninsured Americans by providing affordable, high-quality health insurance for individual and small group consumers. This report provides data for enrollment-related activity in the individual market Marketplace during roughly the first two months of the 2015 Open Enrollment period for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Section I of the report focuses on the 37 states that are using the HealthCare.gov platform for 2015 (also known as "HealthCare.gov states") for the first two months of the 2015 Open Enrollment and covers the period 11-15-2014 to 1-16-2015. The 37 HealthCare.gov states include 35 states that used the HealthCare.gov platform in both 2014 and 2015 and Oregon and Nevada, which are new to the HealthCare.gov platform in 2015. These 37 states account for 75 percent of total Marketplace plan selections in this report. The data available for these states include Marketplace plan selections for new consumers and consumers reenrolling in Marketplace coverage. The reenrollee data include both consumers who actively reenrolled in Marketplace coverage (i.e., people who returned to the Marketplace to select a new plan or actively renew their existing plan), and consumers who have been automatically reenrolled into coverage (i.e., people who retained coverage without returning to the Marketplace and selecting a plan, including some who may have subsequently returned to the Marketplace to actively select a plan).