HealthCare.gov Users Contacted to Try Again

If at first you don't succeed ... (and second, third, fourth, et cetera)

About 275,000 people who tried and failed to sign up for Obamacare health plans are being asked by the U.S. government to return to the website as the software flaws that initially shut them out are being corrected.

People are being contacted this week in a "series of e-mails in waves" to avoid too many getting on the website at the same time, Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, told reporters today on a conference call. Additional people who weren't able to complete applications on the insurance exchange will be solicited later.

"We want to make sure we are inviting individuals to come back into the system and that their experience will be a positive one," Bataille said.