Posted on 10/21/2013 12:39:27 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
We’ve had plenty of evidence that the Healthcare.gov website issues go well beyond coding problems on the front end, where Americans create accounts before gaining access to the actual insurance-plan marketplace. The New York Times reports today that the marketplaces themselves are just as buggy — and that it might take weeks or months to get all the issues fixed:
Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama’s online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow to issue orders for fixing those flaws, and some contractors worry that the system may be weeks away from operating smoothly, people close to the project say.
Administration officials approached the contractors last week to see if they could perform the necessary repairs and reboot the system by Nov. 1. However, that goal struck many contractors as unrealistic, at least for major components of the system. Some specialists working on the project said the online system required such extensive repairs that it might not operate smoothly until after the Dec. 15 deadline for people to sign up for coverage starting in January, although that view is not universally shared.
The scope of the problem is massive:
In interviews, experts said the technological problems of the site went far beyond the roadblocks to creating accounts that continue to prevent legions of users from even registering. Indeed, several said, the login problems, though vexing to consumers, may be the easiest to solve. One specialist said that as many as five million lines of software code may need to be rewritten before the Web site runs properly.
“The account creation and registration problems are masking the problems that will happen later,” said one person involved in the repair effort.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Creating a website was the easiest part of implementing 0bamaCare and the FedMob made it the biggest Epic Fail of all time.
Who will he blame for the followon problems.
And people say that Sen. Cruz and friends failed. They set a trap and 0bungles charged right into it. There is only one door out for him and it's labeled "Cruz Was Right."
0bama will blame anyone but himself for this just as he does for everything else. The question is “who is going to buy it?”
If the GOP can’t turn this o-care disaster into a huge political advantage in 2014 and in 2016 through TV commercials and campaign rhetoric, then they don’t deserve to run this nation again.
Well done!
they should have started this morning with 500 people on the capital steps with insurance cancellation letters in hand along with letters showing the level of premium increase....republicans are absolutely clueless about political theatre...it would have been so simple to do, and you would have had real people with concrete evidence of this disaster in their own hands ...but, nooooooo ..these brain dead jerkoffs are locked away in a room somewhere trying to scheme for amnesty ...
You nailed it!!!
Obama has “pivoted to healthcare.”
Testing? Users will test it, you’re gonna have to use the website to find out if it works. Kinda how they passed the law...
You make a good point about contracting to fix this disaster. Given the magnitude of the work and the fact that there are many qualified vendors that could do the remediation work, competition would normally be required. And there is NO WAY a real competition of this size and complexity could be done in less than a year’s time. Somebody is cutting corners in awarding this work despite FAR prohibitions against doing such things.
Republicans should be asking probing questions, but that may be too much to expect of them.
Then there’s the question of how to pay for the work. The original system costs around $600 million so its reasonable to assume that this major re-work effort will cost at least a third of that amount. Perhaps more. Where does all this money suddenly come from?
Only a fool or a scoundrel would enter a contract to be involved with the fiasco
The fool will fail, the scoundrel will steal the money and run
-PJ
It is time to shrug Atlas, shrug.
The gop/e do not care. As Cruz says... these rinos have been so beaten down over the years that they just have no fight left in them. Some actually are progressive and love this stuff.
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