Healthcare.gov experiences maintenance outage on deadline day

March 31, 2014

The U.S. government’s flagship health insurance exchange website, Healthcare.gov, was temporarily shut down Monday, the deadline for people to sign up for health coverage under the new law.Monday’s outage was intentional so that technicians could fix a software bug, a Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman said via email. Teams extended the site’s regular overnight maintenance window and “brought the system online gradually to best meet consumer demand,” she added.The site, which is now up and running again, has been able to handle “unprecedented” demand from people signing up for coverage, according to DHHS officials. Some 2 million people visited the site last weekend.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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