Obamacare's Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn't Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are

Forbes.com ^ | 10/14/2013 | Avik Roy

[boatbums]

A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare’s federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing. Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. This, in turn, creates a massive traffic bottleneck, as the government verifies your information and decides whether or not you’re eligible for subsidies. HHS bureaucrats knew this would make the website run more slowly. But they were more afraid that letting people see the underlying cost of Obamacare’s insurance plans would scare people away.

[boatbums]

Because of POLITICS, the Obamacare sign up is NOT ready for primetime and they can't/won't admit it.

[Diogenesis]

BUMP.

Socialized medicine DOES NOT ADD DOCTORS
and CHEAPER IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY.

It sets up a gov’t controlled 2 class system.
Guess who gets out?

[LibertarianLiz]

They sold this thing on being cheaper than the private market; but, it is vastly more expensive. They can't let people see that, or there might be Democrat voters joining the conservatives and eeeeevil Tea Party types in opposing this POS.

I would love to know how they chose the people who designed and coded this website. Affirmative Action, anyone?

[MeshugeMikey]

“They Want You To Sign Up Before You Know What you’re Signing Up For”....

with NO apologies to Bela Pelosi.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The clowns down at the CBO were right. ObamaCare is going to save “the government” money by throwing the freeloaders on the backs of the workers and taxpayers. This is really going to get good when the GOOBs pass their amnesty fiasco. 35 to 50 million brand new ObamaCarees.

[skeeter]

Wait until enough of the 26-36 demographic realize what they'll owe next year.

It won't only be middle aged guys in American flag t-shirts and blue haired old ladies in lawn chairs at the next Tea Party rally.

No offense intended - just using the MSM's characterization.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh, Puh-LEEZE! Everyone KNOWS that it’s those EVIL ‘Tea-Baggers’ flooding the system, making fake accounts, etc. that are causing all these problems! (SARCASM)

[BillT]

There is a forty year old technology called “re-entrent coding” where a transaction keeps its pointers to what is next when I get back.

7,000,000 hits in a week is really small and should not have caused a problem. Amazon gets 70,000,000 a weeks and still manages to sell stuff.

[AppyPappy]

Yep. When they fund it, it could start working.

[AppyPappy]

It causes a problem if it has to authenticate through other federal systems like the IRS. You are hostage to the slowest connection/server.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yes, it's time to bring her out.....The Surprise Lady.

"Wait a minute....Do you mean to tell me something run by the government is having problems?"

"WHAT A SURPRISE!"

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

ObummerCare is DEATH BY DENIAL OF CARE, and inability to comply ! It is a purposely designed Conundrum
Welcome to the Socialist reality ,..Comrade !

[AppyPappy]

Tweet from today (paraphrase):

You may encounter a Bigfoot today but he won’t be signed up for Obamacare.

[skeeter]

They sold this thing on being cheaper than the private market; but, it is vastly more expensive.

Obamacare is vastly more expensive than my current plan is, but come 1/1/14 it will be just a hair cheaper.

My current insurer has been forced to jack up its premiums in order to comply with the damn law - this year I'm paying $450/mo, next year I'll have to pay $2100/mo for the same coverage. Obama's insurance will cost around $1900, according to the best info I have now.

[Hoodat]

This, in turn, creates a massive traffic bottleneck, as the government verifies your information matches your name against an Obama donor list and decides whether or not you’re eligible for subsidies.

There, fixed it.

[duckman]

Call me paranoid, I would not go anywhere near that web site. Once you give them your userid there is no telling what will happen.

[Kansas58]

I am a certified “Exchange Agent” but health insurance to those under 65 and not on Medicare is only a very small part of my business.

I HATE Obamacare as a professional salesman, because it makes me feel like a flim flam man. It is like the worst “let me talk to my manager” or any other cliche you want to think about, in sales. I can NOT “quote” premiums to people who call me, without doing as much tax work as an HR Block employee.

I have suggested to Senator Pat Roberts that Obamacare allow PAPER applications to qualify for any subsidy or tax credit, if applicants are willing to wait until they file their tax returns to get said credit. Currently, while there are old-fashioned paper aps available for nearly every plan, paper applications do not qualify for the premium credit or subsidy.

Of course, my idea would SOLVE much of the current web site problems, by taking lots of pressure off the sites.

But that is really not the point is it?

They want the data from the website, they do not want to wait unit 15 April 2015 for their data!

[yldstrk]

I don’t see two things:

People claiming credit for drafting the damn thing
People claiming credit for the website

must mean they are hiding

[RetroSexual]

If they did sign him up, they'd shave him first and register him to vote.

[DeWalt]

It is intended to fail. After it fails with all the tax laws involved, you will be told that it would be to much of a burden on the states and to costly to repeal. They will then have to legislate a fix and walla, you have single payer system they wanted to begin with.