U.S. scrambles to boost Obamacare enrollment as deadlines loom<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-scrambles-boost-obamacare-enrollment-deadlines-loom-000836887--sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YH5eDyGByjXPQrAP.WU2MA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-22T232850Z_1_CBRE9AL1T8500_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="House Speaker John Boehner attempts to sign up for healthcare on the DC Health Link in Washington" align="left" title="House Speaker John Boehner attempts to sign up for healthcare on the DC Health Link in Washington" border="0" /></a>The Obama administration announced a flurry of fixes to its troubled HealthCare.gov website on Friday that officials said would soon double its current capacity, a crucial step toward getting the system working by a November 30 deadline. It also pushed back a deadline for people to enroll in insurance plans for 2014 under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act in a nod to millions of applicants who have been unable to sign up because of technical glitches for nearly two months. The healthcare reform, popularly known as Obamacare, aims to provide health benefits to millions of uninsured Americans. As a result, the administration is in a race against time to fix the website, an online insurance exchange, that is central to Obamacare.</p><br clear="all"/>
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