Healthcare.gov is re-launching, and government officials want you to know that it’s new and improved! Just don’t ask to see its tests results, because those are being kept secret, obviously.
Some of the upgrades: a faster application process, mobile access, and, as health officials apparently stressed to BuzzFeed and other outlets, new fonts. “Look at the fonts and the layout. It’s very clean,” one official encouraged reporters.
They still haven’t quite nailed the Spanish version, though. The first word on the Spanish home page, “Get ready,” is misspelled. It reads “preparase” instead of “preparese.” And as Fox News Latino noted, the flub is conspicuously located in three places on the home page alone.
The Associated Press was not impressed, remarking, “Such a prominent error can unintentionally send a message that the site was not designed to professional standards.”
Last year’s Spanish-language website was a disaster, with much of it written in garbled Spanglish no one could understand.
The Department of Health and Human Services claims with the new design it will take less than half the time it took users last year to enroll.
But again, don’t ask about those tests. BuzzFeed reports:
