HealthCare.gov hits a blip

Politico Pro: HealthCare.gov went down for at least 30 minutes Tuesday, an outage blamed on “human error.”

Although resolved quickly, the occurrence was an immediate reminder of how much is riding on the federal enrollment website’s smooth functioning in the final two weeks of the 2014 enrollment season. On Monday, administration officials described a sharp increase in sign-ups during the first half of March that brought the total to 5 million people nationwide.

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