Redone HealthCare.gov faces new test

The revitalized Obamacare enrollment website will be tested Dec 2 as consumers -- and Washington -- try to log back on to HealthCare.gov, two months after its troubled rollout flatlined even big health law supporters.

The test will start on what’s expected to be heavier Web traffic on Dec 2. And it will last through Dec. 23, the deadline for millions of people — including those who have had their policies canceled — who want to log on and get coverage that starts on Jan. 1. The soft relaunch on Dec 1 also reset the effort by the Administration and its health care allies to have 7 million people sign up in Obamacare insurance exchanges in the next four months. If people can sign on and get covered, the White House hopes, it could start rebuilding support for President Barack Obama’s signature health law and confidence in the President himself. But that of course means that the site has to work reasonably well, reasonably consistently -- and that no new crises emerge. The site serves 36 states that decided not to run their own exchanges.