Administration releases report on healthcare.gov problems and progress

Healthcare.gov is back up and running after some late-night tweaks. Many commentators, including Shannon Pettypiece of Bloomberg News on our program yesterday, noted that the White House and Department of Health and Human Services were being careful to manage expectations.

Pettypiece said ” As of last week, myself and my colleagues were out talking to people – talking to consumers; talking to insurance brokers; talking to non-profits that were trying to sign people up – they were saying that this site is still in pretty rough shape. A couple people gave it four out of ten as far as its functioning, obviously ten being the best.” The administration itself has put out a report on how the site should be functioning, and the implementation of “real-time monitoring” to enable fast response when problems do incur. Read the entire report below:

HealthCare.gov Progress Report Final