Healthcare.gov data center fails, hobbling state and federal insurance exchanges

Problems keep mounting in the administration's attempt to sell health insurance online. A data center critical to the operation of Healthcare.gov, the federal insurance marketplace, experienced an outage over the weekend. The failure affected the Healthcare.gov data services hub, which coordinates eligibility checks, and therefore also impaired local exchanges in 14 states and Washington, D.C.

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