The White House hopes to have the Affordable Care Act federal exchange website, better known as Healthcare.gov, up to 80% capacity by November 1st. Unfortunately for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, it ain’t there yet, as the website crashed while she was watching a couple try to use it at Miami’s North Shore Hospital on Tuesday.
Sebelius had first stopped by a couple enrolling with help of a navigator who said everything was going fine. But at a second table, the screen read, “I’m sorry, the system is temporarily down.”
“Uh-oh,” Sebelius said. “That’s okay, it’ll come back. That happens every day.” The Secretary continued to tour the facility, hearing of more website travails but finding people dedicated to getting signed up.
“For a number of them, they are frustrated with the web experience that they had, but eager enough for the coverage that they’re going to return over and over again,” she said to the press afterward. “What I know is, if you’re not in that situation, and you tried the website a couple times, we’re going to have to work extra hard to get you back.”
Watch the video below, via Washington Free Beacon:
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