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Obamacare Website Fails as Deadline Arrives
NBC News ^ | March 31, 2014 | By Maggie Fox

Posted on 03/31/2014 9:32:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

People trying to apply and enroll for private health insurance through Obamacare before Monday's midnight deadline discovered the website was "currently unavailable."

Healthcare.gov, the online marketplace bedeviled by bugs since its launch last fall, went down for several hours Monday morning, a statement from the Department of Health and Human Services said. It was back online later in the morning after a short time when it put customers in a "queue," meaning they'd be notified by email when they could proceed with enrollment.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democratcare; donkeycare; epicfail; jackasscare; obama; obamacare
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Dang. And I so wanted to sign up. Honest. Now I'll have to claim hardship.
1 posted on 03/31/2014 9:32:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

LOL.
Not to worry.
They will claim astronomical numbers without you.


2 posted on 03/31/2014 9:33:42 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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I heard on the news this morning that the current story is "It was down for routine maintenance".

Sure. I always schedule my routine maintenance on the busiest days of the year, when major events either spin up or close out.

Lies are bad enough, but these are STUPID lies. And the media is to lazy to ask any further.

3 posted on 03/31/2014 9:36:22 AM PDT by wbill
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More Rat justification for postponing the deadline for anyone who says they tried to sign up.


4 posted on 03/31/2014 9:37:07 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: wbill

I bet they took it down as an excuse to ignore the deadline.


5 posted on 03/31/2014 9:39:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Jim Robinson

Was this the extension of the second extending of the absolutely final (but slightly extended) delayed retroactive sign up date?


6 posted on 03/31/2014 9:40:03 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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They must have had more than a hundred log on simultaneously.


7 posted on 03/31/2014 9:41:13 AM PDT by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: wbill

It’s a farce


8 posted on 03/31/2014 9:41:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Sounds like a plan


9 posted on 03/31/2014 9:42:35 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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This can’t be. Valerie Jarret just said she just signed up easy peasy. Way to wait till the last minute, Mrs. President.


10 posted on 03/31/2014 9:42:57 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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GOBLINS!!
11 posted on 03/31/2014 9:44:12 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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“...Obamacare before Monday’s midnight deadline discovered the website was “currently unavailable.”

I’m shocked.


12 posted on 03/31/2014 9:44:52 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (The more helpless the victim, the more hideous the assault.)
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To: onyx
Not to worry.

They will claim astronomical numbers

They already have over 135% Obamacare participation among death row inmates.


13 posted on 03/31/2014 9:47:41 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
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Probably hacked....they just won’t admit it.


14 posted on 03/31/2014 9:47:44 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: Truth29
More Rat justification for postponing the deadline for anyone who says they tried to sign up.

That was my first thought. I pictured the guy from "Airplane" unplugging the runway lights, "Just kidding!".

I suppose they needed to come up with something that would at least point to some legitimacy for delaying the mandate some more. Never mind that the website STILL apparently doesn't work. The MSM will give them cover on that issue.

15 posted on 03/31/2014 9:48:39 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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And tomorrow, they will announce that another 1 million people signed up, or visited, or called, or thought about visiting the site to get Obamacare, Medicaid, Medicare, EBT cards, Welfare, Social Security.... or something else they have a “RIGHT” to get from the guvmnt.


16 posted on 03/31/2014 9:51:23 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: clintonh8r

rumor has that’s its them Goblins again...


17 posted on 03/31/2014 9:52:15 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Iron Munro
They already have over 135% Obamacare participation among death row inmates.

Damn, and those guys live forever.

18 posted on 03/31/2014 9:52:23 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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I bet this was planned. The Administration wanted to extend the sign up period and this is a convenient pretext to do so. It will also help them cook the books so they reach 7 million.


19 posted on 03/31/2014 9:54:34 AM PDT by kabar
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To: MeshugeMikey

AP said that the website “stumbled.” Right.


20 posted on 03/31/2014 9:55:10 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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