The Obamacare Phone Number Is Having Issues Too

Erik Levenson | Atlantic Wire | October 21, 2013

In his speech today on the glitches on Obamacare's healthcare.gov, President Obama mentioned a phone number for users to call and sign up for health care in case the website was down. But as fact-checking journalists quickly discovered, that number is having its own issues.

The White House twitter account sent out the number from Obama's speech:

In the speech, Obama said that the wait times were "under a minute." But Annie Lowrey of The New York Times called the number and discovered something else.