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Video: Relaunch of most embarrassing gov’t website ever going about as well as you’d think
Hotair ^ | 12/01/2013 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 12/01/2013 5:39:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind

According to Fox News Sunday, the new Healthcare.gov site has not quite achieved the promised “fully functional” status by the November 30th deadline. In fact, the site still can’t verify identities for potential enrollees, which means that consumers can’t be sure they’re seeing the right information for coverage options. After forty-two months of development and nine weeks of futility and failure, this isn’t exactly a confidence-builder (via The Weekly Standard):

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“Federal officials promised that healthcare.gov would work smoothly for a vast majority of users starting today. But that has not been the case so far because this morning the critical verification system is unavailable. That’s the system that confirms identities and makes sure people are receiving proper coverage information.

“And applications cannot be submitted without this ant step. The site says this particular problem should be solved within 24 hours. And there is another error much earlier in the process as well. When the site asks if an insurance agent or navigator is assisting you with your application. Ater clicking none of these people are offering any guidance, the next screen incorrectly displays a message declaring the opposite. The banner says, you told us another person is helping you.

“Furthermore, an address associated with healthcare.gov has sent several erroneous e-mails this morning with an alert suggesting that logging in at the website will reveal a new message, however no message ever appeared. Officials have said November 30th was not a magical relaunch date for healthcare.gov, and that like any site, they predict there will be times moving forward when it does not perform optimally.”

A “magical relaunch date”? That was the administration’s initial promise — that all of the bugs would be worked out by December 1, a deadline that is more than just an arbitrary date on the calendar. In order to meet their January 1 deadline for the individual mandate, the site has to be able to enroll millions of people no later than December 23rd — and then the back-end issues have to be fixed, and an entire subsidy payment system launched to ensure that the coverage actually takes effect for those enrolled through Healthcare.gov.

If they still can’t get the front end to verify an enrollee’s identity, just imagine the status of the 834 transmission and subsidy payment infrastructure. And this is after a month-long push to fix these very problems.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: healthcaregov; obamacare; obamacaresecurity; obamacarewebsitefix; obamacarewebsitenot
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To: Paladin2
Great name for a website!

Maybe they can escort the Obamas to a remote base camp.

21 posted on 12/01/2013 7:18:18 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: SeekAndFind
Wonder how they're coming with the security of the site, LOL.
And about the trustworthiness of their navigators, LOL + LOL.
22 posted on 12/01/2013 7:20:52 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: paint_your_wagon
I'm both happy and sorry that 30yr old for me is way back in history.

Thanx for the input though. These 3 guys showed just how incompetent 0bama and his minions are.

23 posted on 12/01/2013 7:47:21 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Maurice Tift

Logan’s Run. Carrousel

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LSUAAKFLoL0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLSUAAKFLoL0

LOL


24 posted on 12/01/2013 7:59:45 PM PST by paint_your_wagon
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To: SeekAndFind

Not to revel in the difficulties of the Commissars and their henchmen ....
but a special ed teacher decided to have a contest for her class: a handclapping contest with a big prize for the winner
Unfortunately only three of the kids could make their hands meet, so they had a ‘Clap-off’ in the auditorium.
The first kid clutches and misses completely. He gets a sucker. OK, the second is the favorite ... but he manages only a disappointing ‘whiff.’ He gets a candy cane.
The third kid is confident. He slaps his hands together and makes a loud clap so loud that kids in the back row jump!

So they hand him a double-dip ice cream cone, and he plants it right in the middle of his forehead.
Forward!


25 posted on 12/01/2013 8:38:55 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: SeekAndFind
there will be times moving forward when it does not perform optimally.”

Are they up to one nine or two?

FIVE IS RIGHT OUT!

a little Holy Grail / Geek mashup for your Sunday evening pleasure :)

26 posted on 12/01/2013 8:42:12 PM PST by Mygirlsmom (Washington: "I cannot tell a lie". Obama: "I cannot tell.....I lie")
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