A monitor shows an example of comparable health insurance rates on the Washington Healthplanfinder website, where consumers will be able to shop for health insurance.WASHINGTON – Bedeviled by technology glitches that frustrated millions of consumers, the Obama administration is taking down its health overhaul website for repairs this weekend.
Enrollment functions of the healthcare.gov site will be unavailable during off-peak hours, the Health and Human Services Department said Friday. The department did not release a schedule for hours of operation, but an HHS spokeswoman said the site would be taken down at 1 a.m. EDT each night for a few hours.
The website will remain open for general information.
Technology problems overwhelmed the launch of new health insurance markets Tuesday, embarrassing the administration just when the health care law known as “Obamacare” was supposed to be introduced to average consumers.
“Americans have seen once again that Obamacare is not ready for prime time,” Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the No. 2 House Republican, said in a statement. “A dysfunctional website is the least of that law’s problems.”