HuffPo: Obamacare rollout has been a complete disaster.

HuffPo...biased media said by who?

 

Doesn't thus stuff gets thoroughly tested before going live? That's embarrassing to say the least. Better get that chit together.

 

Probably some wingnut hackers trying to gum up the works and crash the site.

 

It is true that the Federal government website rollout has been disastrous and it looks like they failed to do proper testing on it before it was done. Some of the state exchanges though have gone pretty smoothly though for example the Minnesota one appears to be working well.

 

I think it would be worth the Feds looking at all the state sites, see which works best, and simply asking to buy it and use it out for other states. Hopefully it wouldn't be too terribly hard to switch out the plans and make other smaller changes.

 

The source code is crap. I read a story the other day talking about how the Canadian company contracted to write the code is having trouble keeping existing contracts due to their shoddy work.

Code monkey forums online have been going thru the source code and are pretty much shocked at the mistakes being made and at the thought they didn't bother to beta test it before going live.

Usual government incompetence rears its ugly head.

Personally, we have had no problem getting signed up and using the site, but we didn't even try till several days after it went live.

 

Dang R2k, this only gives more ammunition to the wingnuts to undermine the ACA. The way I see it, it will be at least a year before we know this whole thing works. The ACA will either be ultimately successful or Obama's Achilles heel.

 

CHANGE THE SUBJECT!!!

 

I'd rather they b****ed about something real than keep making crap up all the time.

Besides, I don't particularly care who it gives ammo to, it is yet another example of them wasting our time and money because they can't be bothered to do things the right way.

Don't get me wrong, I'm for the ACA, but for purely selfish reasons.

I haven't been able to afford insurance for most of my life and as a 1099 contractor for most of my working career, I have not had the luxury of company supplied insurance. From what we can tell so far, this law should finally make it affordable for me.....and really, that is all that matters to me.

 

That's all right, man. Life is not a Hollywood happy ending movie, so altruistic reasons be damned.

 

Hey Hakeem... (like the name)

Since you believe it will be a year before the whole thing works, doesn't it make sense to suspend the individual mandate for 1 year?

Doesn't mean Obamacare isn't running. Just make it optional and not mandatory during this whole for you and I to sign up.

 

Recently, major video games SimCity, Diablo, and GTA5 had serious online problems -- those are massive computer companies who understand demand vs. server output.

All we know at this point is that ACA is very popular.

 

I'm gonna have to ask you to provide some proof of that. From everything I've read/heard since the beginning, this has been very unpopular.

Heck, even one of the authors of the bill (Senator Max Baucus D-MT) warned SIX MONTHS ago he saw a "huge train wreck" coming and asked Sebelius what was being done. Apparently, nothing.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatc...-huge-train-wreck-in-obamacare-implementation

 

No, I meant to say we will have to wait about a year before we know how successful (or not) the ACA will be.

 

KungCheetah - I agree with the esteemed homme above. I recently downloaded SimCity onto my c64 emulator and experienced no such problems . The sprites were nice and angular as God and Gates intended.

 

C64... so good...

 

Simple solution, let individuals buy from other state exchanges that are working. Increase competition.

 

That's not what he said - he said we won't know for a year if the whole things works. In other words, if it's really making an impact on health care - not the website itself.

That said, they really have about 2 months to get this working. Health care plans on the exchanges don't go live until January 1 anyway, so a delay not is not ideal, but not too damaging. However, if it's still not working in December, you've got a real problem and have to make accomodations. If it's not working in January, you have to start delaying the mandate because you can't mandate something be purchased if people can't purchase it.

So nothing major now, but there has to be a lot of progress in the next 4-6 weeks. That said, the site works better today than it did 2 weeks ago, so they've made at least some progress, though it's fairly badly designed regardless. I'm going to check out some of the state websites tomorrow and see how they are done - as I noted earlier, the Feds' simplest solution might be to buy one of those and adapt it for other states.

 

Poor testing before the rollout.

People seem to be trying to use this as an indication that the ACA as a whole is bad. That's just stupid.