"Surprise !!! ... Surprise !!! ... Surprise !!!"
Posted on 10/07/2013 6:12:55 PM PDT by Lmo56
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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"Surprise !!! ... Surprise !!! ... Surprise !!!"
They need to talk to Rackspace here in San Antonio
I’m sure the MSM will be going wild over the outsourcing to Canada and subsequent failure to work properly.....right?
Right after they report on the administration’s failures regarding the Benghazi attacks last year.
But, But, ... People are dying from lack of healthcare.
I have a background in software in the medical industry.
Pardon, but I find this very amusing. I say that because back in the late 1990s when HIPAA was just getting started I sat on a committee that was to design a “universal” medical record that could be used for any type of procedure or diagnosis. My fellow committee members were other software developers. We competed with each other. We decided fairly quickly that the goal of the committee was an impossibility and wrote a detailed paper explaining why.
The powers that be tossed the paper aside, sure that we were crazy. The committee disbanded shortly there after and the universal medical record, to my knowledge, was never developed.
This is the same mindset that designed this system.
IMHO, this system was poorly designed from the get go. Assuming nobama actually wants it to work*, it will require massive redesign.
*Bearing in mind that his plan is for nobamacare to fail so we’ll be forced into a single payer system.
It is obvious this system was never load tested. And, as another FReeper pointed out, their acceptance testing left a lot to be desired, too.
The errors where there are drop down boxes with no options are very basic, simple errors that the most rudimentary acceptance testing should have easily caught.
It was crippled before there were defects, time to put it down, a horse with no legs, put it out of it’s misery, have some compassion.
When I was with MCI, I wrote requirements for a new software system, worked with the IT Department to get it coded properly, supervised Alpha Testing, produced punchlists of defects, got problems fixed, rinse and repeat until system seemed stable, then assigned personnel to Beta Test. Rinse and repeat again until it was finally ready.
None of this was obviously done with this healthcare system.
You don't think the Canadians would tank Obamacare on purpose so that they would still be able to come to America to escape Canada's socialized medicine? Hmmm.
Well, the should have been expecting 40,000,000 users, using their figures. How many servers did they think they needed?
Yes.
You did it right, according to generally accepted practices. I have no clue what format this mess in Washington used. If they used a format at all. Seems to me much of it was made up as they went along. With lots of "Ooopsies" along the way.
There are plenty of commercial software packages that simulate people using a website; they are programmable via scripts. They are not cheap, but you have to have one. I didn’t have one available where I work, so I adapted an open-source packages to suit our purposes. And I’m not even a web designer.
I can’t believe that they got blindsided by this.
“Well, the should have been expecting 40,000,000 users, using their figures. How many servers did they think they needed?”
They got the best Dell PC they could find. Your personal data is safe, ‘cause it’s under Sebelius’s desk.
I say again.. the reason H. Ross Perot ran for president was to get Clinton elected. Perot had already sold EDS but he had a new company and I bet that he was guaranteed the contract for Hillary Care.
Does this mean there’s going to be a cripple fight?
(referencing a South Park episode)
Caught the Democrat governor of Kentucky - Barshear or some such thing - on C-Span today crowing about how many people in his state had signed up on the first day for Obamacare - “and these are farmers in the country, no less” he said - I personally find it very suspicious that while every other state in the country seems to have had trouble on the first few days signing up anyone, Kentucky apparently reported that it signed up 77,000 clients - made up figures? - surreptitious early recruiting? - anything to pad the figures and give Obama a political win......
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