The federal public exchange team has to clear technical obstacles to processing paper applications before it can make paper a reliable alternative to the Web-based enrollment effort.

Members of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchange program "war room" team at the Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight talked about paper application processing in a batch of confidential notes posted Tuesday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The latest batch covers a period from Oct. 1 — the day the PPACA exchange plan open-enrollment period began — through Oct. 29.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.