Add one more delay to the list for the rollout of President Barack Obama's health care law. This time, it's a postponement of the launch of online enrollment tools in Spanish.
Independent experts say a design decision to require that consumers create online accounts before they can browse available health plans under President Barack Obama's insurance overhaul appears to have led to many of the program's technical problems.
The online insurance marketplaces that are at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul struggled to handle the volume of new consumers Tuesday, the first day of a six-month open-enrollment period.
Nonprofits and other organizations nationwide have been recruited by the federal government to sign up navigators to help the 30 million uninsured people gain coverage under PPACA.
Libraries equipped with public computers and Internet access already serve as a bridge across the digital divide, so the government thinks it made sense to get them involved.
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