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HealthCare.gov: Five questions about the problem-riddled rollout (+video)

Nobody, including President Obama, is sugarcoating the problem-riddled launch of HealthCare.gov, where uninsured Americans can buy health coverage. Here are five questions about what鈥檚 happened.

4. Has anything gone right with HealthCare.gov?

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This screenshot made Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 shows the main landing web page for HealthCare.gov.

Many have successfully bought insurance via the site 鈥 some for the first time in years and others at rates much lower than what they were paying before. In the first year, the Congressional Budget Office predicts 7 million people will enroll in the online exchanges, both federal and state-run. Perhaps 80 percent will get a subsidy.

Almost 60 percent of enrollees will get insurance that costs less than $100 a month, including tax credits, the Obama administration calculates.

HealthCare.gov has also won praise for clear writing and intuitive placement of information.

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