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No. I don't see any protected health information.

# of pregnancies is a violation. One could infer whether the individual is pregnant, has had a miscarriage or even an abortion.

The user's IP address (which I imagine gets collected by doubleclick) is one of the 18 identifiable attributes which makes data PHI. But, I don't think that healthcare.gov needs to comply by HIPAA.

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