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"Open enrollment on Healthcare.gov for the Affordable Care Act is over, and President Barack Obama said the number of signups has reached the White House's goal of 7.1 million \u2014 despite a slew of glitches on the website.\nThe president addressed those problems from the Rose Garden on Tuesday afternoon.\n\u201CThe law\u2019s not perfect,\" Obama said. \"We\u2019ve had to make adjustments along the way. The implementation, especially with the website, has had its share of problems.\"\nIssues started in October when the website couldn't handle a modest amount of traffic after it launched, which caused more than a month's worth of glitches and delays. More issues sprung up Monday\u2014the final day of open enrollment\u2014shutting down the site for around six hours and restricting users from creating new accounts for about 60 minutes.\nSee also: How President Obama Ended Up on 'Between Two Ferns'\nBut Obama also said that problems with the site are no longer relevant when it comes to the law's effectiveness.\n\u201CPress, I want you to anticipate, there will be some moment when the website is down, and it will be on all your front pages,\" Obama said. \"It\u2019s gonna happen. It won\u2019t be news.\u201D\nThose problems have indeed taken a backseat to high enrollment numbers that may have stemmed from Obama's recent push to get young people to sign up. The president even plugged his healthcare law on \"Between Two Ferns,\" the online Funny or Die\u00A0comedy series hosted by Zach Galifianakis.\nIn an interview with Huffington Post Live\u00A0on Monday,\u00A0U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said they definitely saw a \"Galifianakis bump\" in enrollment traffic after the president appeared on the show.\n\"The website traffic surged once the 'Between Two Ferns' interview went on,\" Sebelius said on the show. Later, she added,\u00A0\"As a mother of two 30-something sons, I know they're more likely to get their information on Funny or Die than they are on network TV.\"\nVice President Joe Biden also did his part when he appeared on the Rachael Ray Show Monday to talk about the Affordable Care Act.\nThe push to get young people to sign up is key to the law's success because money garnered from young people may offset what it costs to provide healthcare for older and unhealthy Americans.\nThough the website closed its enrollment as of midnight on April 1, it will soon reopen to anyone who had started but not finished enrolling. For anyone who did not begin the process, the next open enrollment starts on Nov. 15.\n\u201CThis law is doing what it\u2019s supposed to do,\" Obama said. \"It\u2019s working. It\u2019s helping people from coast to coast.\u201D\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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