Parts of Obamacare website will be down for part of the weekend

[Tx4obama]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) - Parts of the bug-riddled website where Americans can enroll for President Barack Obama’s federal health care exchanges will be taken down during early morning hours this weekend for maintenance, officials said on Friday.

The repairs will add capacity to the overloaded healthcare.gov and “improve the overall consumer experience,” an administration official said.

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Officials said Friday the repairs would allow more users to access the site simultaneously.

During the time the enrollment function on the website is inaccessible, call centers will remain open to register Americans in the health insurance exchanges.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/04/obamacare-website-will-be-down-for-part-of-the-weekend/?on.cnn=1

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Good news

[Tx4obama]

1. Additional article below

Feds set repairs on glitchy health care website

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 this weekend, the Health and Human Services Department said Friday. 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.

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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/feds-set-repairs-glitchy-health-care-website

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. That's what you get for building a website connected to an MS Access database!

j/k But they probably used something equally shitty like MS SQL Server

[PatrynXX]

3. Frankly thumbs up to obama for putting this 3 months before it starts. 3 months to get the kinks

worked out