The Trump administration extended the Obamacare sign-up deadline from Sunday to Wednesday after people faced problems with the enrollment website.
The final days of open enrollment tend to bring a surge of visitors and applicants to the enrollment website, called healthcare.gov, and onto call lines, causing delays. But this year, the website faced technical issues on the first day of open enrollment, Nov. 1, as well as on Sunday, which prevented people from being able to enroll in health insurance.
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