Enrollment

About 61,000 Washington residents have signed up for private insurance through the state's new health care exchange since it opened on Oct. 1. But 43,000 of them need to finish enrolling by paying for their new health coverage that is set to begin in January.

It started off like every other piece of bad news to hit the wires over the last few months: the online marketplace for small businesses would be delayed another year. But it's finally some good news.

Actuaries find few carriers offer the richest exchange plans.

Cover Oregons head takes medical leave, and Vermont postpones the start of small-group plans.

More troubles for the health care overhaul. Subsidies to help people buy insurance under the law may be vulnerable to fraud, a Treasury Department watchdog said Tuesday in a report suggesting that concerns about the law are far from over.

Counselors helping people use the federal government's online health exchange are giving mixed reviews to the updated site, with some zipping through the application process while others are facing the same old sputters and even crashes.