Analysis: IT Experts Question Architecture Of Obamacare Website

reuters.com ^ | 10/5/13 | Sharon Begley

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Reuters) - Days after the launch of the federal government's Obamacare website, millions of Americans looking for information on new health insurance plans were still locked out of the system even though its designers scrambled to add capacity.

Government officials blame the persistent glitches on an overwhelming crush of users - 8.6 million unique visitors by Friday - trying to visit the HealthCare.gov website this week.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversaw development of the site, declined to make any of its IT experts available for interviews. CGI Group Inc, the Canadian contractor that built HealthCare.gov, is "declining to comment at this time," said spokeswoman Linda Odorisio.

Five outside technology experts interviewed by Reuters, however, say they believe flaws in system architecture, not traffic alone, contributed to the problems.

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John McAfee on Obamacare: ‘This is a hacker’s wet dream’
On Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto” on Wednesday, computer programmer and founder of McAfee, Inc. John McAfee said the online component of Obamacare “is a hacker’s wet dream” that will cause “the loss of income for the millions of Americans who are going to lose their identities. For starters, McAfee said the way it is set up makes it possible for fake websites be set up to fool people to think they’re signing up for Obamacare.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I’m sure the Zero tested it thoroughly.

[PigRigger]

nothing another $300,000,000.00 can’t solve....

[AppyPappy]

If this doesn’t get any better, the Democrats will have to accept the “postpone” offer from the House. I don’t see it getting any better and the deadline is approaching.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

So, they received 8.6 million unique visitors in a four day period.

Amazon is close to that number on a daily basis and they don't crash. They are able to offer their millions of daily visitors hundreds of thousands of items for sale and actually make the sales.

Of course, only people absent of a good view of reality would have thought that the Federal government could handle something that private industry does day in and day out.

Live and learn.