A new report from the White House claims a majority of the issues surrounding the HealthCare.gov website have been fixed as the Obama administration continues to perfect the enrollment process, NBC News reported.
Though the administration said the website is working perfectly 100 percent of the time, it is functioning 90 percent of the time to the promised amount of 50,000 users. When it first launched, HealthCare.gov was only working 40 percent of the time.
"The bottom line: HealthCare.gov on December 1 is night and day from where it was on Oct 1," said Jeff Zients, the new White House economic adviser who's running repair efforts. Since he began working on fixing the site, he created a new management team to create "clear accountability and rapid decision-making."
Zients added the website's speed has tripled since it's inception.
"This is where we experienced a huge bottleneck when the site first launched. Many more users can create new accounts and log on. In effect, we widened the system's on-ramp. It now has four lanes instead of one or two," Zients said.
According to NBC, experts suggest the real test for the Obamacare website will be if/when insurance companies begin advertising their products on the site.
The Department of Health and Human Services promised to update their enrollment numbers by mid-December. In October, only 26,000 people were able to sign up for healthcare through the federal website -- much to the dismay of anti-ACA lawmakers. However, state-run websites in states like New York performed much better.
Julie Bastille, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- a service which runs the site -- said the site has "vastly improved" though "there is not a magic moment."
