Posted on 10/04/2013 4:05:13 PM PDT by mdittmar
The government website where uninsured people in 36 states are expected to sign up for health insurance is going down during "off-peak" hours this weekend to correct a variety of glitches, the Obama administration announced late Friday afternoon.
Healthcare.gov opened for business Tuesday morning but was plagued by glitches that prevented many users from purchasing insurance. President Barack Obama and his deputies pleaded for patience, saying the site would be improved soon and that its problems stemmed from a large number of visitors flooding the site. The site has logged 8.5 million unique visitors since Tuesday, and the 24/7 call support center fielded 406,000 calls over the same period.
But the Obama administration won't say how many people actually purchased insurance in the exchange's first week. The Congressional Budget Office estimated 7 million people would sign up on the exchanges during its six-month enrollment period that ends March 31, and millions of them must be young and healthy in order for the system to work.
"To make further improvements to the system, we will be taking down the application part of the website for scheduled maintenance during off-peak hours over the weekend," Health and Human Services' Joanne Peters said in a statement. "The enhancements we are making will enable more simultaneous users to successfully create an account and move through the application and plan shopping process. During the scheduled maintenance, the call center will still be available to assist consumers throughout the night. We expect that Monday, less than a week after the Marketplace opening, there will be significant improvements in the online consumer experience."
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This kind of stuff is IMO going to cause the multimillion citizen march against socialized medicine.
A 4 day old $2 trillion car back in the shop for repairs. LOL
The media must be livid. They wanted so badly to trumpet the success.
Might be interesting to see who the developer of the website is and their connection to the regime?
You mean it will work even better than it already is?
They will get a Federal Government grant to fix the last Federal Government grant.
Agreed. Other than the “glitches” (eg doesn’t work) the biggest obstacle will be the prices. It will never work. No healthy 20something is going to pay $300 per month for something they may never need. And if they do need care there is a huge deductible.
That’s a (nice) car payment or money for weekends.
The government is most likely keeping it down until they get funding and before everyone sees how f’d up it is. my .02
They have to purge all the ant-obama comments, and that will take all weekend for sure!
Oh, they’re already saying that Obamacare is a Republican program. Because they wanted single-payer, which the Republicans wouldn’t go for. Therefore this train wreck is our fault, not theirs.
They are insane. Truly insane.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-usa-healthcare-technology-technology-idUSBRE99312620131004
Obama is the glitch.
If it works as well as the IRS TIN matching system expect it to be down every week for maintenance and never really work as promised.
When it comes back after the fixes, the pile of garbage probably won’t work worth anything. LIB/DIM FAIL! Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
BUMP!
>> “No healthy 20something is going to pay $300 per month for something they may never need.” <<
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Correctamundo!
I never bought any health insurance until my kids got to high school and it was required for participation in after-school sports.
Huge waste of money!
If there is a shutdown, how can there be software developers and people staffing the phone lines?
Just for a weekend? It ought to be down for, oh, a couple of months at least!
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