HealthCare.gov Is Back to Its Old Self (Sort of) and Other News

Follow key reporting on the Obama administration’s signature policy initiative.

The rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov, the website for people to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, has garnered a lot of attention from the media as well as technology analysts. Here's our daily roundup of some of the key reports you may have missed:

  • HealthCare.gov was back up Monday, after a data center outage took down the site -- as well as multiple state-run exchanges -- over the weekend, multiple outlets report. Verizon Communications’ Terremark unit operates the data hub that failed on Sunday.
  • The face of HealthCare.gov has disappeared, CBS reports. The site was redesigned over the weekend and no longer features the smiling face of an unidentified woman.