Posted on 10/01/2013 5:17:03 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
'The system is down': Obamacare glitches go public, reasons unclear Photo 7:44pm EDT
By Sharon Begley and Caroline Humer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blank boxes where security questions are supposed to appear. Pleas to "be patient." Error messages galore. Notices that "the system is busy right now." Web pages timing out before they load. Garbled lines of text riddled with stray question marks.
Technology experts and government officials were stumped about the reasons for the computer glitches plaguing the Obama administration's launch of new health insurance exchanges. They variously blamed an unexpected deluge of customers and outright errors that information technology (IT) teams labored throughout the day to fix.
Officials scrambled just to keep up with what was working and what was not. In a late-afternoon call with reporters, Marilyn Tavenner, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said that the federal website running the 36 exchanges operated by CMS had "added capacity" to address the problems with the security questions. Told that users were still blocked by security-question snafus, she said: "We are making improvements as we speak."
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Many can’t string two sentences together!!
The only solution for a govt problem:
more budget
more employees
Could it actually be a DNS (denial of service) attack set up by some enterprising young whippersnapper ? I did my part today and was told to come back. Not likely. I will not comply. Open the pod bay door HAL.
Once upon a time last year a nearby university (not mine) fielded a database module for financial aid that was insufficiently load-tested, and on the first day students were locked out of their financial aid exactly like this. Actually, it took the IT staff a week to fix it. Those who weren't fired. Yet.
This, however, is the federal government, wherein failure is only a means of demanding bigger funding. They have top people on it. Who? Top people (cue to closing scene of Indiana Jones). Oh, and it gets better. The people enforcing it are the IRS. The same people who ran conservatives through the wringer with respect to audits and exemptions are now going to be in charge of seeing who gets medicine.
It is simply astonishing to me how the proggies can look at this fiasco and not realize that it isn't their ticket to power, it's their ticket to irrelevance. Nevertheless, for those of them who are going to be depending on 0bamacare for their pacemaker, I wish them luck. You know how "glitches" can be.
I think the RATS who want to stay in political business are aiding the fail, hoping TEA kills it, so they don’t lose their ass next Nov.
we have a 'crack' team of Obamacare ‘Navigators” (former members of SEIU/ACORN/Planned Parenthood/TSA) dropouts doing their utmost to indoctrinate you into Obamacare. They have answers at their fingertips. They have been indoctrinated for 42 months to assure your assimilation.
And that is what you get from a law that was written by Health Insurance lobbyist and is being administered by the US government. Buy insurance or you owe the IRS money. Quite a scam them fascists have going on there.
I REMEMBER DURING A CAMPAIGN WE WERE TOLD THIS IS THE ADMINISTRATION WHICH WOULD GO DOWN IN HISTORY FOR IT´S OPEN HANDED TRANSPARENCY. They kind of falling down on this promise.
I can’t express how much my heart soars watching this all BURN DOWN.
Thank you, Ted CRUZ!
Maybe Congress should have read it before they made it law.
That is awesome. Thanks. lol
Puhleeze. Ya think it could be because the law says they HAVE to buy insurance. And that's where they go to find out how to go about this exchange business.
Media makes it sound like there are millions of happy, smiling folks excited to finally be able to buy their health insurance.
I thought they transferred billions to Goggle, Oracle, and other bib business crony capitalist to set up their system ... guess they should have upped the sole source fee base.
BUY???? LOL we don’t BUY it, you need to get off your computer and get back to work cause I need my subsidies, the more you make the more I take... LOL... Oh snap, hold on a second while I swipe my EBT card to pay for my beer and cigs, oh there goes my Obamaphone ringing off the hook again, maybe its HUD telling me I got my section 8 house, I hope they are installing that new Obama universal internet system ......
The Y2K mess they were conjecturing would grind most of the world’s computer systems to a halt 1/1/2000 was an insult to us programmer-types from those days. Such a debacle was the equivalent of Clinton yelling, “Fire!” in a crowded theater, to distract from billions of dollars corruptly changing hands. A true debacle as described by the doomsayers would have required the incompetent “expertise” of all those gubmint program managers, systems designers and programmers working with 1993’s Hillarycare elite that they eventually assembled to design and implement 2013’s ZeroCare!
HF
Just wait til some all these poor fools get this message on the days they are sick, feeling horrible, in need of care, and waiting, for HOURS to get through.
Kind of reminds me of the old CHAMPUS we used to have in the military, almost 30 years ago. You’d have to walk up at the crack of dawn and just start calling. You might get through, you might not. Usually you just gave up trying and had to get up even earlier the next day to try to be the FIRST to call in the a.m.
Here's your Obamacare.
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