Stephen Colbert kicked off this week of "The Colbert Report" by mourning a lost love: the "vaguely ethnic, smiling" stock photo model who has disappeared from Healthcare.gov.


Colbert grew pretty close to the (photo of a) woman over these last few weeks as he tried to take advantage of the Affordable Care Act through its problematic website. Now that she's gone, having been replaced by some links, there's only one thing he thinks might have happened:


"Death panels got her!"


Watch the video above to hear more about Colbert's search for the "missing" woman, complete with a pretty spot-on composite sketch.



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