Posted on 11/08/2013 3:01:15 PM PST by matt04
Recently released documents reveal that the failed federal insurance e-commerce website, Healthcare.gov, could only handle 1,100 users the day before it launched [PDF]. It has long been suspected that the White House prioritized politics over technical realities in the launch of the healthcare website, but this is some of the best proof that officials were burying their heads in the sand.
“Currently we are able to reach 1100 users before response time gets too high,” noted a technical report to the website team. Eventually, the document notes, they hoped the website could handle 10,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at techcrunch.com ...
So without vast improvement, their hope was to register 900,000 in the quarter that made up the enrollment period. Kind of rough when you are hoping to have 10 million sign up.
If only 1100 could sign on, and it took 30 minutes to sign up, it would only take 490 years for 315 million citizens to get set up.
And by the end of 490 years, we would be millenniums behind...
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