(AP) — Nearly 10,000 Nebraskans have applied for health care coverage through the new federal marketplace, but only 338 have signed up for a plan.

Federal officials released state-by-state enrollment numbers Wednesday for the federal health care law. Enrollment began on Oct. 1, but the federal website has been plagued by technical problems that kept many residents from finishing their applications.

Nebraska is one of 36 states that relied on the federal website, after a state-run marketplace was rejected as too expensive. In all of those states, fewer than 27,000 people managed to enroll.

States that ran their own websites reported more than 79,000 sign-ups. But the total first-month enrollment nationwide was still only one-fifth of what federal officials had expected.