This is the day that America has been waiting for. It's the promised date that will see the Obamacare website healthcare.gov become usuable for "most" people. Can you feel the excitement building? The anticipation is killing us. Oh...wait: A crucial weekend for the troubled website that is the backbone of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul appears to be off to a shaky start, as the U.S. government took the HealthCare.gov site offline for an unusually long maintenance period into Saturday morning. Just hours before the Obama administration's self-imposed deadline to get the insurance shopping website working for the "vast majority" of its users by Saturday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it was taking down the website for an 11-hour period that would end at 8 a.m. EST on Saturday. I don't think they'd take the site down for 11 hours if it was going to work as promised, do you? It was unclear whether the extended...(Read Full Post)