Test Version of Healthcare.gov Site Accessible By the Public

The Healthcare.gov website has been plagued with problems since the October 1 launch. As web programmers often do, the designers of the federal government’s flagship health care website have a test version of the site, spa.healthcare.gov, to help work out the kinks before implementation on the public site. That test site appears itself to be public.

When a user first attempts to access the “spa.” site, a warning from the user’s browser may be encountered. For example, the following warning appears to Chrome users: