Surprise: Covered California extends Obamacare signup 'deadline'

“We were prepared for a last-minute surge of people coming to our website, but sometimes there’s only so much you can do operationally,” said Covered California executive director Peter V. Lee in a press release. “While we had hoped people would start the enrollment process earlier, we can’t in good conscience turn people away who simply couldn’t get onto the website on the last day.”