Obamacare signup deadline pushed back to Tuesday

By Susan Cornwell and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Americans scrambled to beat a deadline to sign up for insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law, the White House gave most consumers an extra day, until Tuesday, to obtain coverage that starts January 1. The last-minute move by the Obama administration to accommodate high demand came as it reported record traffic on HealthCare.gov, the federal enrollment website that struggled with glitches after its launch in October. It was the latest impromptu change the administration has imposed on the healthcare program to address the fallout from a series of technical and political missteps. They said a call center took 200,000 calls from those seeking insurance under the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.



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