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Broker specializing in the market predicts widespread adverse impact.

The U.S. government has shut down, but beyond continuing resolution budget debates, the next looming crisis is the federal debt ceiling. Are Affordable Care Act provisions more likely to be taken hostage there?

High visitor traffic and technical problems plague exchange launch day in many states, giving new ammunition to Republicans critical of the law, but showing “how important” the law is, president counters.

The ‘Obamacare’ insurance exchanges got off to a rocky start, with many websites meant to provide new access to the uninsured seeing delays or breakdowns.

The U.S. government has shuttered over fights on Obamacare, but the 2010 law in question has at long last opened its health care exchanges to the public.

The three-year effort to open the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges culminates today, beset by logistical delays and efforts by Republicans to shut down the U.S. government in protest.

Benefits advisers for government contractors say employees will be impacted in the way of retirement savings and more.

Some brokers are eager to start enrollment on Oct. 1 and others want to wait and see what happens, but either way, no one expects people to be knocking down their doors on the first day.

Now that the long-feared government shutdown – prompted by an ongoing, partisan budgetary wrestling match – has finally occurred, what kind of impact will the hopefully short-lived pause in federal government activity have on benefits decision makers? Despite all the grousing about there being too much government involvement in our lives, it’s not until the lights go dark that you realize the widespread and inescapable scope of national agencies. [Images: Shutterstock]

The degree of success will be how well the industry does in solving the “annuity puzzle.”