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MNsure, other exchanges near enrollment deadline

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Becky Fink, a MNsure navigator, helps Mic-Ryan Freeman, 22, fill out a paper MNsure application for health insurance Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 at Nucleus Clinic in Coon Rapids. While the MNsure website continues to have problems, Fink encourages people to use the paper application, which Fink then faxes to MNsure for them.
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MNsure, along with other state health insurance exchanges, continue to struggle to overcome bad reviews and technical delays. MNsure recently axed the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox ads and is now spending $266,000 on new television ads like this one to encourage enrollment:

The open enrollment period ends at the end of March.

Joel Ario helped launch the federal insurance exchange program. He spoke to NPR:

"Unfortunately, states that I once touted as the leaders — Maryland, Oregon, Minnesota," are among those bringing up the rear, he acknowledges. "This is a complicated undertaking, and so people who tried to do too much in [the first year], I think, had some problems with that."

As the deadline approaches, we check in on the state of healthcare exchanges around the country.