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Washington Post – One of the most challenged features of President Obama’s health-care reform — the insurance exchanges — is now taking enrollees.

Perhaps it was fate that opening day came on the same day the federal government shut down. It was a fight in Congress over opening the marketplaces to millions of uninsured Americans that brought us to this point. As it turns out, a rush to the marketplaces resulted in glitches that were bound to occur with a complex new program, let alone one so controversial.

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