Posted on 10/07/2013 8:51:36 AM PDT by mojito
Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for the first time Sunday it needed to fix design and software problems that have kept customers from applying online for coverage.
The Obama administration said last week that an unanticipated surge of Web traffic caused most of the problems and was a sign of high demand by people seeking to buy coverage under the new law.
But federal officials said Sunday the online marketplace needed design changes, as well as more server capacity to improve efficiency on the federally run exchange that serves 36 states.
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The website is troubled by coding problems and flaws in the architecture of the system, according to insurance-industry advisers, technical experts and people close to the development of the marketplace.
Among the technical problems thwarting consumers, according to some of those people, is the system to confirm the identities of enrollees. Troubles in the system are causing crashes as users try to create accounts, the first step before they can apply for coverage.
Experian PLC, an information-services firm, holds a federal subcontract to support that system. The company declined to comment.
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What could go wrong? :)
Sounds like there wasn’t even minimal testing done.
Sounds like anybody who enters personal info is at HIGH RISK to have their ID stolen. A hacker’s dream.
It’s never going to work because it can’t work.
It can’t work because it was designed not to work.
Costing the absolute maximum amount while not working is what it is meant to do.
And it is doing that extremely well.
Look folks, when the enemy gives you a giant pile of scrap iron and tells you that if all of you take off your clothes, put down your weapons, and use old toothbrushes to work together to turn the scrap iron into a spaceship - all while the enemy provides everything your need to stay alive....
Get a freaking clue!
LOL!
Will Obama correct his earlier tout of “glitches” and now call it what is really is as, “design” flaws?
The website needs a Death Panel.
This is not the same as fixing some screwed-up code.
A design problem means the whole design is crap, and they need to start over from square one.
If they really wanted to fix THAT problem, they could have fixed 80% of it by making people on unemployment insurance also be eligible for Medicaid, and have them be on it while unemployed.
Written in India by Indians is on the label.
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