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For much of this year, Sara Goodrich of Lakeland has gone without health insurance -- despite trying over and over again to complete enrollment on HealthCare.gov. “For the last six months, all of the agents have been telling me something else is the issue. Resubmit here, there's an address error, it's your birthday, for some reason, that would affect my application, and I just said, I am trying to follow the rules here, and you guys aren't helping,’” she said. (Watts, 11/5)

A prominent House Republican on Wednesday accused MNsure executives of misleading him about their budget and asked the federal government to stop giving the controversial health care exchange any more money, provoking a war of words with MNsure leaders. At issue are millions of dollars in federal grants provided to MNsure by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. MNsure hasn't yet received permission from the federal government to use these grants next year but counts on them in its budget. (Montgomery, 11/4)

MNsure's board of directors Wednesday unanimously accepted Twin Cities business executive Mark Nyquist as the single finalist to become the exchange's next chief executive. (Zdechlik, 11/4)

Minnesota's health exchange named an experienced former insurance executive as the sole finalist Wednesday to take over as the fourth CEO of the embattled, three-year-old organization. MNsure board members publicly identified Mark Nyquist as the lone finalist for the position. Nyquist has previously worked as a vice president at UnitedHealth Group and several private consulting businesses with clients in the health care field. (Potter, 11/4)