There are estimates that U. S. healthcare-related on-line traffic exceeds ONE TRILLION transactions daily. Something are innocuous requests like prescription renewals, but some are life-and-death decisions, like ordering a rare blood-type for a transfusion, or obtaining an organ for an emergency transplant.
The healthcare networks are incredibly complex and diverse, and rely on multiple paths between physician, patient and third parties.
The Obamacare website should be a walk in the park compared to the complicated web of information services needed to sustain a nationally-run healthcare system. If there are screwups now, people might get mad, but people probably won’t die.
In the execution phase of Obamacare, however, mistakes like those made with the website will result in innumerable negative medical consequences, including many deaths. Even minor delays and glitches will exact a huge bodycount.
This website is the canary in the coal mine. We cannot let this program proceed. We cannot accept this kind of incompetance when peoples’ lives are at stake.
Estimates by who?