Posted on 11/09/2013 5:04:22 PM PST by Libloather
ObamaCare's federal data hub will undergo routine maintenance from Saturday night to Tuesday morning, temporarily preventing HealthCare.gov from verifying if users are eligible for premium tax credits.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made the announcement Friday, saying the hub will be offline for work on its connection to the Internal Revenue Service.
The disruption will not prevent users from otherwise completing applications for coverage on the federally run exchanges, CMS communications director Julie Bataille said.
HealthCare.gov is usually taken down for maintenance overnight and during the weekends. Federal health officials say the disconnections are necessary as they make a variety of improvements and changes to the site.
The data hub is one component of the system that the CMS has touted as working well. It helps to check applicants' personal data against federal databases as they move through the enrollment process.
The administration is struggling to fix HealthCare.gov before its self-imposed deadline of Nov. 30.
Former White House budget chief Jeff Zients, who was appointed to oversee the repair effort, said his team has reduced error rates on the site to 2 percent, down from 6 percent on Oct. 1.
"Where we are is not where we want to be," Zients said on a call with reporters. "We are making progress each week."
Zients also disclosed that he's working full-time on the effort and not receiving pay.
What a complete and utter joke this whole thing is. It’s perfectly illustrative of the Federal Government’s knowledge, capabilities, and intent in their every endeavor.
What a coincidence, Google and Amazon will down during the same timeframe! (Just kidding!)
Hahah, they are down 50% of the time for maintenance? Oh haha, it’s Dark Ages back there in DC.
A 60 hour maintenance window? Chumps.
Notice how the hours that the site is down is exactly the same hours that overweight unskilled ACORN workers would be sleeping.
I’m thinking there are 5 post-menopausal urban neighborhood queens working in the backroom of the website, processing applications at the same speed as the employees of the Wealthy St McDonalds in Grand Rapids MI.
but it “works” Wednesdays to Fridays?
It belongs to a union?
Hehe. Excellent.
Why is a former WH Budget Chief assigned these duties?
Separation of functions thrown out the window?
I would think there are some fundamental breaches in appropriations ongoing here.
Working without pay? Not allowed.
You can’t perform “routine” maintainence on something that doesn’t work.
Obama Care site and IRS shut down just before the “EMP” Black out drill is making me wary of the “drill”.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made the announcement Friday, saying the hub will be offline for work on its connection to the Internal Revenue Service.
The disruption will not prevent users from otherwise completing applications for coverage on the federally run exchanges, CMS communications director Julie Bataille said.
HealthCare.gov is usually taken down for maintenance overnight and during the weekends. Federal health officials say the disconnections are necessary as they make a variety of improvements and changes to the site.
The data hub is one component of the system that the CMS has touted as working well. It helps to check applicants' personal data against federal databases as they move through the enrollment process.
Does anyone else see this as problematic, or is it just me?
Regularly!
Down 50% of the time for maintenance … the other 50% of the time, it’s not working.
Perfectly normal IT practice. eBay goes dark all the time. so does Netflix and Wikipedia.
Yup. Check the list yourself:
http://www.alexa.com/topsites
ROTFLOL! Down from Saturday to Tuesday is hardly routine maintenance. Can you imagine ebay, amazon, craigslist, espn, google, google email, apple, icloud, dropbox, or a slew of others going down every Saturday to Tuesday for “maintenance”? The Obammunists really do think the people of this country are stupid, stupid, stupid.
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