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Do we know how bad HealthCare.gov really is yet?
Conservative Daily News ^ | 10-18-13 | allanbourdius

Posted on 10/20/2013 4:57:03 PM PDT by smokingfrog

For the past two and a half weeks – sadly partially silenced by the government shutdown and debt ceiling drama – Obamacare as an information system has been melting down since enrollment in the “exchanges” or “marketplaces” for health insurance went live at the HealthCare.gov website on October 1, 2013. It’s clear that the situation is bad, and is starting to alarm even the most forgiving to the President and his policies, as liberal Statist sites like The Huffington Post publish articles with titles like “Obamacare Website Failure Threatens Health Coverage for Millions of Americans”.

The actual file name of that post is simply delicious: “obamacare-train-wreck_n_4118041.html”.

We’re starting to see lots of material being published about how HealthCare.gov came into being, and either baffled disappointment or a sense of “what else did you expect?” at how a web application project that as much as $634 million has been spent on can’t handle user loads, deliver simple web pages, or manage to correctly display drop-down list box contents, much less enroll millions of uninsured Americans for soon-to-be-universally-mandated health coverage.

It’s also been reported that of the people who have managed to actually not have HealthCare.gov error on them and get themselves enrolled that incorrect information has been passed to the insurers via the government’s website and that possible compromises of personal information (leaving enrollees vulnerable to identity theft) have both occurred.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: healthcaredotgov; obamacare
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To: smokingfrog

“You think you hate it now, wait until you drive it.”


21 posted on 10/20/2013 5:40:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Fai Mao; BunnySlippers

“I live outside the US. I will probably never return to the US.”
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So do I. They can not ask us, much less force us to pay money to Obumbo’s Marxist regime. I have my own healthcare plan which has no connection to the USSA.
I will not return, even to visit. America is not even close to being the country that I left ten years ago. There is no way that it can recover in my lifetime.


22 posted on 10/20/2013 5:42:05 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: I_Like_Spam

Although it isn’t going to same time or security protection since the worker who reviews your paper application must manually enter the information from your forms into the same system. They need to get it working.


23 posted on 10/20/2013 5:42:53 PM PDT by erlayman
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24 posted on 10/20/2013 5:42:53 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: AlexW

Whoa, you’ve been here awhile ... well, so have I.


25 posted on 10/20/2013 5:43:52 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: House Atreides
There are people who are finding out how bad it is right now. The numbers will just increase.

Nurses at home care agency loosing $5/hr on their wages.
1000 laid off at Stryker.
(X) 1000’s have lost their health care.
DR. retiring early or closing their practice & joining groups.
Dr.’s not accepting medicair/medicaid.

It has only just begun.

26 posted on 10/20/2013 5:44:57 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Donnafrflorida

“i keep hearing abt CR but the thought of being in south America”
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While I do not live in Central or South America, I suggest that you get on the Email list of WWW.InternationalLiving.com
and WWW.EscapeFromAmerica.com.
They specialize in Central/South America, but other areas as well.


27 posted on 10/20/2013 5:45:53 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: entropy12
Do not get lost in the forest looking at the trees.
The web site is the easy part. It will get fixed.

IIRC the website is in PHP, for security and data-integrity saying that PHP will be fixed is, well, polishing a turd.
This is due to how the language itself plays fast-and-loose with data-types.

28 posted on 10/20/2013 5:46:12 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: smokingfrog

Anyone who had anything to do with enacting this law and promoting and legitimizing it (like Obama, HHS, Congresspeople who voted for it, John Roberts, etc.) should be forced to enroll in ObamaCare and live under its constraints.

Object all sublime, to let the punishment fit the crime, the punishment fit the crime.


29 posted on 10/20/2013 5:51:39 PM PDT by BusterBear
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To: AlexW

“So do I. They can not ask us, much less force us to pay money to Obumbo’s Marxist regime. I have my own healthcare plan which has no connection to the USSA.
I will not return, even to visit. America is not even close to being the country that I left ten years ago. There is no way that it can recover in my lifetime.”

If they can force us to pay taxes to a country we do not live in. prevent us obtaining bank accounts and mortgages they could lay this burden upon us as well.


30 posted on 10/20/2013 5:56:33 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: BunnySlippers

beats the heck out of digging a hole and crawling in it.
sorry :(
i have never felt so angry so depressed so hopeless.
I know its wrong but I am tired. i also know thats their plan.

i an tired of emailing and calling our idiots in DC.
Tired of trying to stay ON TOP of things and warning folks.

this website kind of keeps me going. i know i am one of many who sees things as they are AWAKE.
sorry abt the rant. every day every hour brings another mind boggling decree.
if its this bad with what we know can you imagine how bad it will become with what we DONT know.


31 posted on 10/20/2013 5:57:00 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: dr_lew

You must be answering the wrong post. I have no such words “pure and simple” in my post. No problem.


32 posted on 10/20/2013 6:00:27 PM PDT by entropy12 (With no fear of re-election, Obama is becoming more radical left..thanks a lot all you who abstained)
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To: dr_lew

I beg your pardon, I did use those words.


33 posted on 10/20/2013 6:02:49 PM PDT by entropy12 (With no fear of re-election, Obama is becoming more radical left..thanks a lot all you who abstained)
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To: Fai Mao

“If they can force us to pay taxes to a country we do not live in. prevent us obtaining bank accounts and mortgages they could lay this burden upon us as well.”
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How can they do that when you are not living there?
I have no US accounts of any kind.


34 posted on 10/20/2013 6:08:12 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: entropy12

Pardoned in full. It was worth a chuckle, though!


35 posted on 10/20/2013 6:09:14 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: BunnySlippers

I hear ya. All my years assimilating language and culture don’t seem so much a fun hobby now as much a potential survival tool.


36 posted on 10/20/2013 6:13:34 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Donnafrflorida
Yes, it is discouraging and exhausting.

And you are right that it is their goal to wear good people down.

One thing that may help you if you haven't thought of this already. Sometimes I take a few days off completely from watching/reading the news. I do something else like read a couple of light books (not political), take some drives, some hikes and I amazed how refreshing it is not to think about what's going on in DC.

Often this restores my energy. All the best to you.

37 posted on 10/20/2013 6:57:54 PM PDT by what's up
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To: BunnySlippers

Let’s make it a foursome!


38 posted on 10/20/2013 7:21:58 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: VerySadAmerican

You’re on. :o)


39 posted on 10/20/2013 7:26:05 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Donnafrflorida
i have never felt so angry so depressed so hopeless. I know its wrong but I am tired. i also know thats their plan. i an tired of emailing and calling our idiots in DC. Tired of trying to stay ON TOP of things and warning folks.

"...when the crushing of the power of the holy people shall have been completed, all these things shall be finished."

40 posted on 10/20/2013 7:30:39 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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