Exactly one year after the disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov, that tech debacle is a distant memory for many?but the federal Obamacare insurance marketplace is faced with a new set of challenges as the next open-enrollment period is set to start in mid-November. Obamacare advocates say those challenges don't present the kind of dire threat that HealthCare.gov's massive flop did when it launched Oct. 1, 2013. But if they aren't met successfully, it could remind people of the exchange's bad old days last fall. Those issues include what will be first-ever automatic re-enrollment of millions of existing Obamacare customers, the need to build a system that will generate accurate tax forms related to federal subsidies that most enrollees receive, as well as ongoing court challenges that actually threaten to cripple the basis of Obamacare.
