Activity at two West Coast state-based exchanges cooled during the latest week of operations.

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.

A Web broker says affordable prices could cut federal subsidy spending.

One item on the secret to-do list: Bringing in 60,000 agents and brokers.

The federal exchanges seem to have received fewer than 168,000 completed applications.

The site designers feared higher capacity would expose more weaknesses.