The Spokesman has run periodic updates on the health insurance situation and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from Steve Kammeyer, Farm Bureau director of health insurance services. With all of the recent news on the ACA, we followed up with Steve and asked him some additional questions.

What are all of these problems with the new health insurance website?

The ACA provided for "Mark­et­places" to be set up in each state. They are a place for consumers to shop for health insurance. Some are run by the state, but most are run either by the federal government or as a joint state/federal partnership. All of those...