Healthcare.gov Down Temporarily On Friday

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This December 3, 2013 photo shows a woman in Washington, DC reading a message indicating that a connection cannot be established with the HealthCare.gov insurance marketplace internet site. The troubleshooter appointed by President Barack Obama to overhaul a bungled health care website rollout said December 1 that improvements had made a 'night and day' difference in handling online traffic. The White House has admitted previously that the launch of Healthcare.gov, where people can sign up for health insurance, was a debacle and the Obama administration pledged that the vast majority of potential customers would be able to enroll online by the end of November. AFP PHOTO / Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)
This December 3, 2013 photo shows a woman in Washington, DC reading a message indicating that a connection cannot be established with the HealthCare.gov insurance marketplace internet site. The troubleshooter appointed by President Barack Obama to overhaul a bungled health care website rollout said December 1 that improvements had made a 'night and day' difference in handling online traffic. The White House has admitted previously that the launch of Healthcare.gov, where people can sign up for health insurance, was a debacle and the Obama administration pledged that the vast majority of potential customers would be able to enroll online by the end of November. AFP PHOTO / Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

Dec 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. government agency responsible for the HealthCare.gov website for new individual insurance said on Friday that its technology team began work on the website at 10 a.m. (1500 GMT), making it inaccessible for customers for two to three hours.

The work followed an error made during overnight routine maintenance and the site should be "up and running again soon," Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in an emailed statement. In the meanwhile, the site is putting customers in a queue, he said.

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