March 31 (Bloomberg) — A computer error stalled the federal government's Obamacare enrollment site today as record numbers of visitors tried to sign up before a midnight deadline.
The first annual enrollment period under the health law ends today, with early returns suggesting the Obama administration may approach the 7 million sign-ups it expected before the U.S. health exchange website, healthcare.gov, faltered when it opened in October. Technology trouble returned about midday today, preventing new customers from starting the enrollment process as more than 100,000 people at a time tried to use the site to purchase a health plan.
"The issue has now been fixed," Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said in an e-mail. "All functionality is back up," she said in a Twitter post.
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