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Traffic to healthcare website grows – 1 million new visits on Monday claims White House
After weeks of around-the-clock fixes, and as the December 23 looms, the government said on the weekend that the website should work well for most Americans.
The White House has signaled that it plans to outline more aggressively the benefits of the healthcare reforms. Obama will kick off the campaign on Tuesday in a speech at 2:30 p.m.
Some of those benefits include ensuring that 129 million Americans with pre-existing medical conditions, including 17 million children, cannot be denied health insurance or charged more for it, McDonough said.
McDonough said work will continue to fix the site and that the strong traffic shows there is demand for affordable health insurance.
“I will say that I’ve worked on many complicated issues – Middle East peace, Iran, and budget deals. And I can tell everybody in this room that reforming the healthcare system is the single most complicated issue I’ve faced,” McDonough said.
Source: Reuters
