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This March 25, 2014, photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov as photographed in Washington. If you’re waiting until the last minute to sign up for coverage under President Barack Obama’s health care law, a little extra patience might come in handy. HealthCare.gov, the online portal to taxpayer-subsidized health insurance, runs slowly when compared with major private health insurer websites. That’s according to an analysis for The Associated Press by Compuware, a Detroit company that measures website performance. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

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FILE - In this Dec 10, 2013 file photo, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, center, talks about problems with Maryland’s health care exchange in Baltimore. Joshua Sharfstein, Maryland’s health secretary, is standing to the right, and Carolyn Quattrocki, the interim director of the exchange, is standing to the left. With the open enrollment deadline approaching, some states running their own health insurance exchanges are focused less on getting robust sign-ups than on avoiding total disaster. Nevada, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maryland and Oregon are among the states facing severe technical and administrative problems, which have led to firings of top officials and contract cancellations for key software companies. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

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Anthony Hahn, chief executive officer of Conestoga Wood Specialties, speaks to reporters in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, after the court heard oral arguments in the challenges of President Barack Obama's health care law requirement that businesses provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to contraceptives. Supreme Court justices are weighing whether corporations have religious rights that exempt them from part of the new health care law that requires coverage of birth control for employees at no extra charge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Paul Clement, attorney for Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood, center, stands with attorney David Cortman, right, as they speak to reporters in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, after the court heard oral arguments in the challenges of President Barack Obama's health care law requirement that businesses provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to contraceptives. Supreme Court justices are weighing whether corporations have religious rights that exempt them from part of the new health care law that requires coverage of birth control for employees at no extra charge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Demontrators gather in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, as the court heard oral argument in the challenges of President Barack Obama's health care law requirement that businesses provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to contraceptives. Supreme Court justices are weighing whether corporations have religious rights that exempt them from part of the new health care law that requires coverage of birth control for employees at no extra charge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Mary Novick of St. Paul, Minn., bows her head in prayer during a demonstration in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, as the court heard oral arguments in the challenges of President Barack Obama's health care law requirement that businesses provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to contraceptives. Supreme Court justices are weighing whether corporations have religious rights that exempt them from part of the new health care law that requires coverage of birth control for employees at no extra charge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Margot Riphagen of New Orleans, La., wears a birth control pills costume as she protests in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, as the court heard oral arguments in the challenges of President Barack Obama's health care law requirement that businesses provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to contraceptives. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **