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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Obamacare: Where Things Stand Now [Watch (HLS stream): Obamacare: Where Things Stand Now](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2rs03Z2r.m3u8) (1:56)  _Published 2013-11-12. Some consumers are angry their insurance policies are being canceled. And government officials are being asked to explain why the roll-out looks like a disaster so far. 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Millions of Americans who buy health insurance on the individual market, have seen their policies cancelled this fall because they don't comply with the Affordable Care Act. Many are shocked this is happening after President Obama promised that those who like their healthcare plans would be able to keep them under the new law. [ MUSIC ] Consumer anger has been exacerbated by the fact that a website meant to offer the new coverage still isn't working very well. The site, healthcare. gov, is functioning intermittently and very slowly, locking users out or crashing altogether. The Obama administration has promised the site will be fully functional by the end of November, but the clock is ticking. Federal officials in charge of repairing bad computer code on healthcare. gov have said the fixes being made are causing new bugs to emerge. Insurance companies who expect to enroll some seven million Americans in new coverage by the end of March, are starting to get nervous that the federal insurance website, and others being run by states, won't work well enough, or soon enough, to make the insurance market viable next year. This Wednesday, a group of top IT officials from the Obama administration are scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee. [ MUSIC ] The chairman of the committee, Darrell Issa, has subpoenaed the top White House IT expert named Todd Park, after Park declined to appear voluntarily. In addition, another top IT official, from the Department of Health an Human Services, resigned last week. Meanwhile, some Republicans in Congress have said Kathleen Sebelius herself should resign. 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