Obamacare website stalls briefly ahead of enrollment deadline

The website for people to enroll in U.S. private health insurance faced some delays early Monday morning, just hours before the deadline for the first year of enrollment under the healthcare law. The HealthCare.gov technology team has begun bringing the site back on line gradually after it found a software bug during their monitoring of the site and fixed it during the regular maintenance window, representatives for the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement. It worked intermittently until a technology overhaul had it working relatively smoothly by December. Americans have until midnight on Monday to obtain health insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law known as Obamacare or else face fines.