The below is directly from CMS's daily update regarding the website fixes. They added an online waiting room - problem solved!
"What we wanted to do today, with the new upgrades and to ensure the most optimal experience, was deploy the queuing system...so that people would have the most optimal experience possible. We are working through this in real time."
Source: Can HealthCare.gov actually handle 50,000 users at a time? | Washington Post.
