After Second Opinion, ObamaCare Website Re-Do Deadline Set for Saturday

Fox News ^ | November 29, 2013 | Staff

[lbryce]

President Obama's healthcare rollout re-do is headed for a crucial test Saturday – and there's a lot on the line.

If the federal healthcare.gov website doesn’t deliver, the president's credibility, political support and fate of his landmark health care law could be in jeopardy. If the site is able to recover from its disastrous Oct. 1 rollout, it will go a long way is restoring confidence in the program.

The financial success of the Affordable Care Act rests in getting young, healthy people to sign up for the program. If they lose interest or bolt, the program will not be profitable.

The White House says it's made numerous upgrades in both software and hardware over the last month, which will allow the site to be able to handle 50,000 users at once and more than 800,000 visitors a day.

[lbryce]

Second opinions. Usually requested in medical situations that seem urgent,dire.
Reminiscent of when a woman sees a doctor, receives the diagnosis of being grossly overweight.
Woman: I want a second opinion.
Doctor: Okay, you're ugly, too.
With ObamaCare there's a multitude of second opinions.

[Steely Tom]

I can’t wait.

[Gaffer]

The success has already been decreed. You will hear NO alphabet network or any cable outlet (save maybe Fox) that will report ANYTHING but success. So it has been determined, so shall it be.

[Vigilanteman]

Just what we need: A functional cash register at an overpriced sh*t sandwich shop¡

[molson209]

Sign up and get put on Medicaid ,even Millionaires

[PoloSec]

I’ll say the site will crash before one am after midnight.

[headstamp 2]

Everybody sign up for your crap sandwich.

[struggle]

How many hackers are going to be on Tor Ddosing it? Only takes a few 4channers.

[Billthedrill]

That pattering sound in the background is the goalposts being moved again.

[Venturer]

With Obamacare the website is the least of it’s problems.

The whole thing is a disaster.

There is but one answer and that is to repeal it, and get the repeal done before 80 million people lose their insurance. Then work on the 13 million who have already lost their insurance and try to help them.

[vbmoneyspender]

Low Orbit Ion Cannon it

[BlessedBeGod]

...which will allow the site to be able to handle 50,000 users at once...

How come it won't be able to handle millions at a time like Amazon and eBay?

[Fido969]

This guy has had one failure after another - but if his website works ONCE, he’s a genius?

[stylin19a]

these guys have tin ears

The White House says it's made numerous upgrades in both software and hardware over the last month, which will allow the site to be able to handle 50,000 users at once and more than 800,000 visitors a day.

Sigh...keep issuing challenges...a DOS or DDOS attack is probably being planned even as this announcement is being made.

Same morons who assured us the new 100 bill was counterfeit-proof, as the counterfeits hit the street as the announcement was being made. brbr

[PA Engineer]

The White House says it's made numerous upgrades in both software and hardware over the last month, which will allow the site to be able to handle 50,000 users at once and more than 800,000 visitors a day.

Hmmm. Sounds like those numbers were pulled deeply from the elbow. The first indicator was the large round numbers. The second was the made up numbers themselves.

How long is the sign up process? 1.5 hours per unique visit. Twentynine million "potential" sign ups in a year? Insurance cancellations are outpacing even these "rosy" made up estimates. There is only one thing worse than criminals or incompetents. That would be our current occupation that is full of criminal incompetents.

[JennysCool]

The financial success of the Affordable Care Act rests in getting young, healthy people to sign up for the program. If they lose interest or bolt, the program will not be profitable.

Apparently the Administration doesn't know twenty-first century "young, healthy people." Most of them thought the thing was going to be free in the first place. They went to the website. The website didn't work. Then they found out the thing wasn't free, after all. In fact, would be far more expensive than what they already have. Which "young, healthy people" do they expect will return to such an epic, historic failure?

Obamacare had its opportunity. And missed it. Badly.

[maine-iac7]

What about the 30-40% of the back-end of the whole program that hasn't even been written yet?

Isn't that the part to settle on correct payments AND to receive said payments, without which, no policies are valid?

Will they smoke and mirrors this again - putting out just the numbers of people who manage to APPLY but not yet buy?

No young pwople I know will be signing up -

[billhilly]

Well said.

[Lou L]

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, the only thing worse for the White House than a poorly-working website, could be an efficiently-working one. Assuming improvements, a lot more people should be able to find out how UN-Affordable the ACA is!

[Principled]

If there’s a focus on website improvement to judge the value of 0bamacare, there will be sadness.

The worst of 0bamacare will be when people find out their costs for health insurance is going up plenty.

Then it will be that they can’t get a cheaper policy with just the coverage they want.

Then it will be that the doctor(s) they’re used to seeing aren’t in the plan.

Then it will be that they have to drive far to see a doc in the plan and/or to go to a hospital that 0bamacare deals with [eg in Ga, Humana has ONE hopsital - ONE]

Then it will be that half of those covered by employers will have to experience the same nightmare. Of course this part of the nightmare is being delayed to try to minimize impact on midterms.

Finally, it will be sometime when you try to use your credit card, debit card, or access your bank account and you cannot b/c some criminal stole your ID.

I’m glad I have a passport in good standing.