[Skepolitic]

This is just what you should expect when the Chief Information of the United States, the formal title of Obama's tech czar, is a public policy grad with a career in politics. Aneesh Chopra

Team Obama relied on the audacity of hope for their Healthcare.gov website development. They didn't even think it was necessary to test the system before rolling it out.

How's that Hope'n'Change™ working out?

[lepton]

“They didn’t even think it was necessary to test the system before rolling it out.”

Apparently they did test it. It failed under load of just a few hundred concurrent users...then they released it anyways and tried to claim that the problem was its popularity caused the usage to exceed the 30 million it was designed to handle.