Obamacare's Websites Are Still Broken | Motherboard

Obamacare's Websites Are Still Broken | Motherboard:

 Now one day deep into the launch-of-Obamacare-government-shutdown debacle, signing up for a health plan under the Affordable Care Act is no less challenging than it was yesterday.

While plenty of people have been able to get through to their state's site via healthcare.gov's portal, and some have been able to setup up accounts to begin the e-shopping process (myself included), many have hit a wall of internal server errors.

A friend of mine in Seattle, Joshua Powell, who is unemployed and sick in bed, told me he has already spent 10 hours trying to make it through the process. I saw his status in my Facebook newsfeed last night containing a thorough testimonial of his affair with Washington State's health plan finder website, where he's made little headway beyond retrieving his login and trying to place things in an online shopping cart. When I asked him to elaborate on his experience, he wrote: