If only this was just a Halloween trick. Visitors trying to log on to the Obamacare website early Thursday morning saw the same stubborn phrase that has roiled users for weeks: "The system is down at the moment." It's been almost a full month since the HealthCare.gov website launched, riddled with technical problems despite a series of advance warning signs. And despite a chorus of apologies out of Washington, it may be another month before everything's running smoothly. Vice President Joe Biden became the highest-ranking administration official to apologize Wednesday for the botched rollout. "We assumed that it was up and ready to run," he told CNN's sister network HLN. "But the good news is although it's not -- and we apologize for that -- we are confident by the end of November it'll be, and there'll still be plenty of time for people to register and get online."
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Visitors trying to log in to Obamacare site early Thursday see "The system is down" message
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Biden said he didn't bother trying to log on because "it was clear that I was not getting online"
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Obama: "I take full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed ASAP"
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Sebelius says she was wrong to tell Obama the website was ready
@placeholder told CNN last week that Obama didn't know of the problems with the site -- even though insurance companies had complained and the site crashed during a pre-launch test run -- until after it went live.