[ImJustAnotherOkie]

It’s beginning to sound like the Space Shuttle Challenger. Warned of problems, management went ahead and launched.

[grobdriver]

It’s beginning to sound like the Space Shuttle Challenger.

In this particular case, I'll be rooting for the gremlins and that the whole thing goes down in flames.

[cuban leaf]

It’s beginning to sound like the Space Shuttle Challenger. Warned of problems, management went ahead and launched.

---

For those of us in IT this was an easy call when the first problems were reported. Management driven dates, no time for testing. converting 30 man days of work into 30 contractors doing it in one day...stuff like that.

I’ve witnessed such disasters in my career and this one looks to be the biggest and most impactive in the history of electronic computing.

It’s kinda fun to watch, in a sort of schadenfreude way. :-)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Tossing this in here:

Did the last minute “patch” requiring people to sign up first before seeing any product (and being blamed as one reason this govt site isn’t working) happen so Obamacare salesmen could play with a marked deck and move applicants around in order to showcase “young and healthy” were filling up slots - “salt the mine” so to speak and encourage more to sign up?

If so, it didn’t work.

Judging from those human props (and their WH press released stories) flown in to stand behind Obama for the Rose Garden sales pitch, the Obamacare salesmen can’t advertise it as “sold.”

Obama had pitched this as, “will be as easy as buying a plane ticket online.”

Fail.