Posted on 11/02/2013 10:17:07 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obamacare website to be down again for maintenance late Saturday
12:51pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The glitch-ridden website used to sign up for insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law will be down for "extended maintenance" overnight on Saturday, the Department of Health and Human Services said.
The website has been plagued by technology problems and has not worked reliably since its launch on October 1, embarrassing the administration and providing ammunition for Republicans seeking to roll back the law known as Obamacare.
The application, enrollment tools, and "data hub" will not be available from about 9 p.m. ET on Saturday (0100 Sunday GMT) until 9 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) on Sunday, a spokeswoman for the department said in a statement, telling consumers they can call a toll-free call center to apply for insurance in the meantime.
"The HealthCare.gov tech team is performing extended maintenance this weekend to improve network infrastructure and make enhancements to the online application and enrollment tools," said Joanne Peters, the spokeswoman.
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rofl!!
But sarcasm aside (since I don't know what languages they actually used)...
The chances of "Everything Fixed" by Nov 30 -- ZERO.
The chances of "A Whitewashed New Front-End Interface" that accepts data for processing by hand by human beings, by Nov 30 -- feasible. In other words, a Potemkin Village front. That they can do in a month.
I would not bet on having the MAJOR problems actually fixed before mid-January AT BEST.
I do not believe they will EVER get "Everything fixed". Period.
WORSE, the security is already compromised -- Fox has reported that people who have entered their private personal information so far have already had that information stolen by cyber thieves.
Can’t be “fixed” until they “fix” the obsolete software of the multiple Federal systems it has to interact with. Transaction timeouts galore.
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