Posted on 10/21/2013 8:59:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Consumer Reports, which publishes reviews of consumer products and services, advised its readers to avoid the federal healthcare exchange “for at least another month if you can.” “Hopefully that will be long enough for its software vendors to clean up the mess they’ve made,” the magazine said, having tested the site themselves over the course of the past three weeks.
Noting that only 271,000 of the 9.47 million people who tried signing up in the first week managed to create an account, Consumer Reports then provided a few tips to those attempting to slog through the application process. From attempting successive logins because “error messages … may not always match reality” to checking your inbox frequently because if you miss an e-mail you’ll be timed out of the site and forced to start from square one, none of the suggestions guaranteed success.
The magazine has also released a string of scathing reviews. On October 1, the day the Obamacare exchanges went online, the magazine told people to be patient: “Don’t worry if you can’t sign up today or even within the next couple of weeks.” A week into enrollment, they urged again to “wait a couple weeks and hope that the site irons out its many problems” because the HealthCare.gov is “barely operational.”
As the editors continued to review the website over the next few days, they only had one positive statement: “On the plus side,” they noted, “consumers coming to HealthCare.gov are no longer stopped cold by an error message or a screen saying they’ve been put in a waiting line.”
Now three weeks into the exchanges, having offered reviews and advice, Consumer Reports said that “If all [these suggestions] are too much to absorb, follow our previous advice: Stay away from Healthcare.gov,” at least for the time being.
Via Washington Times.
Odd, Obama never mentioned this report!
Why do I suspect suddenly a DOJ investigation of Consumer Reports?
Must be my imagination.
Let’s stay away for a couple of weeks.
Then we bombard it again, and take it down for good!
Libs starting to claim the website doesn’t work because the GOP and Tea Party are/have sabotaging/sabotaged it.
How much of this failure to adore is racially motivated?
Hey CR, stick to buying dozens of washing machines and testing them in ways that I or most web commenters never could and stay out of politics.
Oh the communist fallacy language of now having government corporate like product sales interests.
Since when a cop was hired by us to sell us lemonade imstead of doing other jobs.
This is feminist Nazism.
CR “editorialized” support for 0care numerous times, I doubt they’ll get any “visits” or suffer the indignity of any vindictive investigations by the Justus Dept.
They’re on the “correct” side of this and thus the reason for my cancelling of my subscription once they came out in support of it.
Be reasonable. The IRS investigation will come first. Only after all the tax liens are in place will the DOJ come in.
I have the impression that Consumer Reports is generally politically correct and therefore left wing. So this is remarkably frank.
So CR will soon be attacked and destroyed.
Kind of funny.
Keep taking the pain pill instead of having the surgery.
Harry Reid doesn’t give a Rat’s @$$.
Wait until the ChiComs and Anonymoustards hit it.
It’s quite telling how tolerant certain groups can be regarding Gov’t-sourced “solutions” compared to the indignation that private concerns would get if even a fraction of these problems were to appear in their products having FAR less impact.
Ah, but with 0bama, it’s “what have you done for me lately?”
Ask J.P.Morgan, who absorbed Bear Stearns and another brokerage house, and just got fined $13 billion for what they did BEFORE Morgan bought them. . . at Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s request. . .
They better hope their corporate income tax records for the last several years are in order.
I am not going anywhere that I have to enter all my personal data just to browse around (even though they already have it I won’t give them the satisfaction that I logged into it).
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