Policy

Maybe Healthcare.gov Isn't So Fixed

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As Peter Suderman noted earlier, the Obama Administration's declaration of victory over Healthcare.gov's technical issues may be a little premature. For the hell of it, this morning I tried signing in to the federal Obamacare exchange Website to set up an account. I used Mozilla Firefox 25.0.1. I picked Arizona as my state. Everything went swimmingly…until I actually tapped the "Get Started" button. I saw code salad, as the screenshot below demonstrates.

Healthcare.gov is still screwed
U.S. Government

So I started over and tried again. And again. The third try was the charm.

To be fair, I opened Google Chrome and was able to get in and set up an account using that browser on the first try. My email notification of "Marketplace account created" arrived soon after. Just a thought, but maybe the tech wizzes working on Obamacare's woes might need a little more time to slap duct tape on the website's boo boos.