The Obama administration began emphasizing the option of applying for insurance through the Obamacare Marketplace with a paper application ever since it became apparent that the online process at Healthcare.gov was riddled with problems.  More recently, however, the administration began to shift the emphasis away from paper applications due to concerns they might not be processed in time to meet the deadline for January coverage.  Now the link to the downloadable paper application at Healthcare.gov has been removed altogether.

A search for “paper application” on the site currently brings up a rather garbled result: