BREAKING: Obamacare’s Data Center Crashed. Now offline until further notice. (VIDEO)

by Austin Petersen

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the ongoing disaster that has been called the rollout of Obamacare, it now appears that the critical data center tied to Healthcare.gov has crashed. All enrollments have been halted to the 50 states.

Penalties for not enrolling in the program begin Feb. 14th. 

This is just the latest in a string of critical failures in the launch of the president’s health care programs. The data center is operated by Verizon, who have been summoned by President Barack Obama to conduct a “tech surge” to fix Healthcare.gov. They have no idea yet when the center will be active again. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is due to testify before congress about the program later this week.

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The outage started early on Sunday and caused the data center to lose connectivity with the federal government’s data services hub which links all the healthcare data together. Without it, consumers are unable to determine if they are eligible, or apply for health care programs. Just one day before, Sebelius was praising the hub’s ability to perform complex calculations quickly. She touted it as a success.

The website, when the data center is functional, is providing faulty data to insurers and individuals applying. Insurers are receiving information that is ‘totally useless’. Citizens are being given quotes for plans that do not match with the insurers website. Many are complaining of “sticker shock” due to soaring costs of premiums, without additional services provided.

News outlets are reporting on the president’s lie that if people wanted to stay with their previous plans, they could keep them. 

Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

8 comments

Robustoman October 28, 2013 at 3:40 pm

Someone at HHS probably picked up a phone in another room to make a call and didn’t hear the EarthLink dial up screech until it was too late.

ded2me October 28, 2013 at 4:05 pm

You’ve got mail!

larrybud October 28, 2013 at 4:13 pm

The article has two errors. One, you’re not required to ENROLL in the program, you’re required to have insurance.

Second, the date for this requirement is Feb 15th, not Jan 1.

Ed Park October 28, 2013 at 4:33 pm

Wrong Larry, we are required to have insurance that meets or exceeds the requirements in obamacare. Dude, that is why millions are having their insurance cancelled.

Inconsistencies October 28, 2013 at 5:50 pm

I get great pleasure watching the whores in Washington fail at pretty much everything they do.

ghendric October 28, 2013 at 6:08 pm

Healthcare.gov is still up and running… if the data center is down, what’s the point of having it up?

Vibora Volando October 28, 2013 at 7:27 pm

Death Panel Says!……pull the plug on Obamacare.

Conservativesniper October 28, 2013 at 10:44 pm

What an ingenious plan to disarm America. The federal government only issues felony warrants. Once convicted of a felony, legally owning a firearm is not a possibility. And with the bumbling by obama(soetoro), sebelius and all their nitwit staff, millions of Americans will be denied the right to own ANY KIND of firearm with which to defend themselves and their families. Congress needs to repeal this shortsighted clusterfook of legislative ineptitude.

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