aka scope creep.
300 million people are required by law to sign up for Obamacare in 6 months. Web site can handle (according to Debbie Downer Schultz) 50 thousand people a day.
Total time to get everyone signed up is 16 years.
Think they need a bigger boat.
I really think they needed to have some kind of phased roll-out — geographic areas of the country or whatever. There would be some equal protection concerns raised, but really, no one would try to do the whole country from the get-go with an interactive website with huge backend database(s) and extensive third-party network connections.