Saturday is the administration 's deadline for HealthCare.gov to work for most users . The official said the decision to go with a different vendor was made months before any problems with HealthCare.gov were identified and was unrelated to an outage that struck the site in late October , which the administration blamed on the Verizon subsidiary . Officials say the website will work better but warn that some problems will persist . Latest snafu : The site has been down since Friday, and it appears as if many people are still trying to sign up on their own. Tech expert : Success means high traffic moving fast and smoothly .
Saturday is the administration 's deadline for HealthCare.gov to work for most users . Officials say the website will work better but warn that some problems will persist . Latest snafu : The site has been down since Friday, and it appears as if many people are still trying to sign up on their own. Tech expert : Success means high traffic moving fast and smoothly .