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Healthcare.gov Crashes on Last Day

GLITCH

Enrollment deadline.

The last minute scramble to enroll in Obamacare was too much for its glitchy website to handle Monday. As tens of thousands rushed to sign up for Monday’s obamacare deadline, the website actually stalled and unexpectedly stopped taking applications for several hours. Healthcare.gov was taken down for site maintenance from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. but remained down for several more hours after a bug was discovered. Good news though: more than 9 million people who didn't have insurance before have signed up through federal and state exchanges.

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