Obamacare Call Center Down as President Encourages Phone Registration

On Monday, President Obama addressed the numerous embarrassing failures associated with Healthcare.gov. In his remarks, he recommended using the phone or registering in person in lieu of using the defective website.

True to form, the call center went down almost immediately.

Yep. Just called. RT @Tyler_McNally: REALLY??? RT @amylutz4: LOLZ THE CALL CENTER IS DOWN.

— Amy Lutz (@amylutz4) October 21, 2013

Additionally, the phone number also referred people...back to Healthcare.gov.

Can't make this up. Got through 800-number, followed prompts, and got referred to http://t.co/42WSNzdKsg.

— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) October 21, 2013

Does anyone test anything these days? This is unacceptable and ridiculous.