Ezekiel Emanuel Celebrates ‘No Problems’ with Healthcare.gov, Until He’s Informed It’s Down

Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the main shepherds of the Affordable Care Act, celebrated this weekend’s enrollment surge on Morning Joe Monday morning, including the fact that Healthcare.gov was handling the increase in traffic, despite its disastrous rollout last fall.

“Notice with this big surge, no problem with the website,” Emanuel said. “It’s actually working. So that is, I think, another real surprise, that they really have the website working mechanically in terms of server capacity and all of that.”

Alas, Healthcare.gov went down late last night due to the increased traffic, as Willie Geist pointed out.

“Yesterday I logged on at ten p.m.!” Emanuel said.

“You got there early,” Geist said. “It’s down.”

Healthcare.gov, of course, was all but unusable for its first two months, though it appears that signups for the Affordable Care Act rebounded following website repairs in late November.

Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:

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