During a White House speech, President Obama has acknowledged the newly launched website, healthcare.gov, hasn't been working as smoothly as it is supposed to.
"The website has been too slow. People have been getting stuck during the application process. And I think it's fair to say that nobody is more frustrated by that than I am. We're doing everything we can possibly do to get the websites working better, faster, sooner. We've got people working overtime, 24/7, to boost capacity and address the problems. We've had some of the best IT talents in the entire country to join the team. And we're confident that we'll get all the problems fixed."
Since its launch on October 1st, the new website immediately became the target of critics due to its low speed and the failure to handle the tens of thousands of applications