Another LIE!
In every article I've read in which a knowledgeable person has opined about heathcare.gov, not one has said it can be fixed quickly. The worst opinion I've seen is that it can never be fixed because the underlying structure just doesn't work and the entire project needs to start over. The best opinion I've seen it that it will take three year to fix it.
For what it's worth, one of the goals of HIPAA back in the late nineties was to have everyone's medical records online. It's been 15+ years and that dream still isn't realized, although EHR (Electronic Health Records) are part of nobamacare. Online medical records are a walk in the park compare to the complexity of healthcare.gov. What does that tell you?
That depends on what is defined as “fixed”.
The major problem of being able to shop for and select a plan was done adequately by a couple of guys in their basement over the course of a week...and duplicated by several others. If they replaced that, and delegated a lot of the back end, it might look greatly improved for long enough to give them a few more months.
it would take at least 6 months to a year to test and debug such a complicated system - they started with an untested system on Oct 1, they might have something working on April fools day
the small business system has been delayed for a year
the payments system to insurance co’s will not be built for jan 1, they are just going to let the insurance co’s estimate their subsidies and invoice the gov’t !
when they get the website working well enough to get significant volume into the system they are going to find that the data in various gov’t databases (IRS, SSA, HHS, DOJ, HSA, VA etc) is not 100% accurate and not consistent.
before this thing works they have a giant data normalization project to do !
the were working on 50 bug fixes on saturday and installed new hardware on friday !
we are dealing with the Dunning Krueger effect here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
obama and his flying monkeys have no idea how complex the fix for this thing is, their problems have just started, the web site was the easy part
sit back and watch, the fun is just beginning !
I believe John McAfee opined that the best “fix” would be to throw the whole website out and start over, which would take 2-3 years. And IIRC, David Kennedy said something to the effect of at least several months, when he was on Greta’s show, while some of the other cyber-experts who gave Congressional testimony would not speculate to Congress definitively on a time frame, as in “unknown”, but not soon.
I’m no cyber-expert, but it would seem to me that with a half billion lines of code already written, riddled with vulnerabilities from the ground up, and who knows how compromised already by hackers, that the developers have an effectively impossible task in ever making the site secure, unless they do start over.