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With federal and state online health care marketplaces experiencing glitches a month into implementation, concern is mounting for a vulnerable group of people who were supposed to be among the health law's earliest beneficiaries.

Members of the HealthCare.gov war room team talk snail mail.

Access Health CT counted 42 requests for exemption forms and 232 for voter registration forms.

Tavenner insists that consumers will have time to avoid coverage gaps. But Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is concerned.

As many as 17 million low- to moderate-income Americans should be eligible for tax credits to buy insurance through PPACA's exchanges, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the government's health care website has improved since its widely panned launch a month ago, and is still improving.