Posted on 10/21/2013 8:25:13 PM PDT by Lmo56
Days before the launch of President Obama’s online health insurance marketplace, government officials and contractors tested a key part of the Web site to see whether it could handle tens of thousands of consumers at the same time. It crashed after a simulation in which just a few hundred people tried to log on simultaneously.
Despite the failed test, federal health officials plowed ahead.
When the Web site went live Oct. 1, it locked up shortly after midnight as about 2,000 users attempted to complete the first step, according to two people familiar with the project.
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Bush’s fault!!
I predict that the problems are going to be so large that Obama will be forced to delay at least part of Obamacare. And he will blame the website for everything, and the Republicans, for shutting down the gov’t. The website gives him a convenient scapegoat for a much more flawed law.
“including 24-hour work from “some of the best IT talent in the country.””
“They include two of the main contractors, CGI Federal and Quality Software Services Inc. (QSSI), a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group”
So this is the best software talent?
Maybe they should have “unveiled” it instead of “launching” it.
That'll fix it fast. Do these geniuses know that people become less productive, groggy, error-prone when they are working seven days a week without sleep? Especially on work that requires a high level of concentration and logical thinking?
Probably not, but it doesn't matter anyway. This is all BS.
So they definitively knew it wasn’t functional even for as few as two thousand, and pushed it out anyways escorted by constantly shifting known lies, leaving millions to waste large amounts of time, while using the failure as ‘proof’ of success and popularity.
Yup. Pretty much. But, the American Public ain't that dumb. This is meat n' potatoes kitchen table politics.
If the web site isn't up, is delayed a year, and people aren't enrolled on Jan. 1st, working-class people [who would be eligible for subsidies] may be greatly affected.
Those who are losing their current employer-funded healthcare plans [or are being terminated in their current minimal private healthcare plans] are going to have to get their own Obamacare-approved private insurance for big bucks - or pay the fine and trust they have no healthcare issues. Try telling that to a family with young-uns.
They can't very well go back to their employers or old insurance companies and demand to go back to their old plans because the employer dropped the insurance and the insurance companies cannot legally offer the old minimal plan.
If this happens - ANYONE who voted for Obamacare [even San Fran Nan] will have a difficult time in the next election. They are going to say that Obama knew months ahead of time that the October 1 rollout was not feasible, he could have delayed it well in advance NOT to lose coverage, and he could have avoided the gov't shutdown to boot ...
It is likely IT contract labor. Mercenaries basically. They are likely working in shifts.
Being in IT I knew they would never meet the deadline and if they did it would be a disaster. The biggest and brightest can’t pull off a project this complex on the timetables given. It was laughable from the start. You can’t just go back and fix this. The entire thing has to be torn down and rebuilt followed by real testing and adjustment of expectations.
If you like healthcare.gov you will love amnesty.gov.
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