WASHINGTON (AP) — Bedeviled by technology glitches that frustrated millions of consumers, the Obama administration is taking down its health overhaul website for repairs this weekend. Enrollment functions of the healthcare.gov site will be unavailable during off-peak hours, the Health and Human Services Department said Friday.
The department did not release a schedule for hours of operation, but an HHS spokeswoman said the site would be taken down at 1 a.m. EDT each night for a few hours. The website will remain open for general information.
Technology problems overwhelmed the launch of new health insurance markets Tuesday, embarrassing the administration just when the health care law was supposed to be introduced to average consumers.
"Americans have seen once again that Obamacare is not ready for prime time," Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the No. 2 House Republican, said in a statement. "A dysfunctional website is the least of that law's problems."
Why are we not surprised?
They had to activate the website, before they could see what it was.
We are unable to confirm the rumor that the man who set himself on fire on the National Mall was the lead programmer of the website.
4 comments:
Well I for one believe that all the problems, gliches and bugs in the Obamacare website are caused by G.W. Bush, and the republican congress sabotaging the site.
The statute of limitations has expired on "Blame Bush".
Not so, just recently both our president and the leader of the senate blamed something on W.
The administration blames everything from head lice to tornados on the republicans. Why not the obamacare website?
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