Posted on 10/07/2013 11:22:53 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
ObamaCare site to go offline for more repairs By Sam Baker - 10/07/13 01:36 PM ET
Healthcare.gov, the primary website to enroll in health insurance through ObamaCare, will be taken offline again Monday night for improvements, following weekend work designed to fix major technical problems.
The site will be offline beginning at 1 a.m. in order to improve its capacity and make software changes, the Health and Human Services Department said.
HHS said the site had improved as a result of work done over the weekend. The site was taken offline during nonpeak hours to address widespread technical errors that prevented users from creating accounts, a step required before they can compare insurance plans.
"The work done to increase access to HealthCare.gov in light of the overwhelming demand is beginning to show results," HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters said.
HHS has said the primary problem with healthcare.gov has been the unexpectedly heavy traffic to the site. It received roughly 8.6 million visits in the first week of its launch, overwhelming its servers.
But some technical experts say the site's problems are also structural, and HHS acknowledged Monday that its changes are not limited to adding more capacity.
The fixes scheduled to begin at 1 a.m. Tuesday include software changes and moving part of the system to a new type of hardware, HHS said.
"Our work to expand the site’s capacity has led to more people successfully applying for and enrolling in affordable health coverage online, with wait times being shortened by approximately 50 percent since Friday," Peters said. "But we won’t stop until the doors to HealthCare.gov are wide open, and at the end of the six-month open enrollment, millions of Americans gain affordable coverage.”
Define functional. In CT the health care exchange was down for a significant part of the first day. Out of 23k visits, only a few hundred signed up.
Sites like Amazon and Netflix cope just fine with much more traffic on a daily basis. They are scared to admit that the bloated and inefficient code is the reason for all the failures.
You can't know the price until you pass the funding!!
They had, what, three years to work on this and it is this buggy?! Who wrote the code for this disaster, some kids smoking crack?
IIRC, in CT less than 200 people signed up on the first day.
It was done by the company in Canada that does their national health care stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGI_Group
And to whom did the Canadian company outsource this crap?
I really have no choice but to apply for coverage for my family and since they (the state) sent me a paper application I am using it. Long, but reliable and doesn’t crash. And I can make a straightforward copy before sending it.
I don’t know that they did.
I assumed they used some of their 69,000 employees to do it.
I may be incorrect.
We're working to make the experience better, and we don’t want you to lose your place in line. We’ll send you to the login page as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience!
In a hurry? You might be able to apply faster at our Marketplace call center. Call 1-800-3(F)18(U)-2(C)5(K)9(Y)6(O) to talk with one of our trained representatives about applying over the phone.
Of course the MSM are reporting indignantly about how this was outsourced to a foreign country, right?
In California it was (appropriately) Zero.
On Nov. 26, 2012 Amazon sold 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories.
Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/27/at-peak-amazon-sold-a-whopping-306-items-per-second-in-2012/
and 0bama is blaming the slowdown on 9 million visitors (if true) just looking, in the first week?
I’ve been trying since it opened just to get a price and I have been unable to get past verifying my wifes ssn ,, keeps failing on that and kicking me back to the start...
See?
Just what I said.
I haven’t paid much attention today. Has the media found it’s “successful” applicants yet. I mean anyone who isn’t named Chad.
According to obama the law is already funded.
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