Massachusetts created a Romneycare-inspired template for President Barack Obama’s health reform effort. Now, as the Bay State is struggling to upgrade for the Obamacare era, its enrollment system is buckling under technical glitches like those that hobbled HealthCare.gov.

State officials are increasingly concerned that thousands of Massachusetts residents seeking coverage are lost in a wilderness of misfiled applications and cybermalfunctions. Now, they’re moving ahead with a labor intensive backup plan aimed at making sure that no one loses coverage when Obamacare starts in January. …

That narrative is under threat. Massachusetts is struggling to rebuild its exchange, known as the Connector, to comply with the Affordable Care Act. New federal subsidy levels and broader Medicaid coverage mean that tens of thousands of people have to enroll or re-enroll but are hitting those glitches. That’s led to a blame game.