HealthCare.gov is not letting people login to enroll. This is the second outage, the first lasted 15 minutes. We're 8 minutes into the second. Last time this happened, 100k people could not enroll. @CMSGov must extend the deadline. 
@CMSGov This error is neither a "system down" or "waiting room" message -- leaving people trying to login bewildered that this is even a login page. When you call the listed number, the message states "due to high call volume" leave your name and number.
@CMSGov The HealthCare.gov website problem is ongoing (2 hours now). Sometimes the login page loads, sometimes it doesn't. For context, right now a baseball stadium of people SHOULD be enrolling every hour. These kind of technical issues could not be happening at a worse time.
Traffic at HealthCare.gov is at its highest point of this Open Enrollment. There was a massive traffic spike at around the same time the problem started.
There is a growing chorus of people calling on @CMSGov to extend the deadline. Former CMS Administrator @ASlavitt (The person previously responsible for this decision), @PeteButtigieg, @ewarren, @RonWyden, @maziehirono @SenBobCasey
@CMSGov @ASlavitt @PeteButtigieg @ewarren @RonWyden @maziehirono @SenBobCasey Add @JoeBiden @FrankPallone @joekennedy to the list.
@CMSGov @ASlavitt @PeteButtigieg @ewarren @RonWyden @maziehirono @SenBobCasey @JoeBiden @FrankPallone @joekennedy After nearly 8 hours, the intermittent issues appear to have stopped shortly before midnight ET.
For people who couldn't enroll yesterday, a year of health coverage was on the line. Some problems are unavoidable, but how you respond is the real measure of success. This person was lucky to live in a state that extended the deadline.
Thrilled to report that @CMSGov has officially extended the deadline for HealthCare.gov open enrollment! Starting at 3 PM ET today, people will have until 3 AM ET Dec 18 to enroll. Please RT to help get the word out that it's not too late to enroll!
@CMSGov Thank you to the thousands of people who helped make the HealthCare.gov open enrollment extension possible. Special thanks: @ASlavitt, @PeteButtigieg, @ewarren, @RonWyden, @maziehirono, @SenBobCasey, @JoeBiden, @FrankPallone, @joekennedy, @janschakowsky & @morethanmySLE
