Posted on 11/13/2013 10:51:19 AM PST by Red Badger
Nearly a month and a half into the dismal Obamacare rollout, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services communications director Julie Bataille told reporters on Tuesday that CMS has begun emailing at least 275,000 people who had gotten “stuck” attempting to create accounts on the glitch-ridden HealthCare.gov, asking them to come back to the site and “try again.”
Bataille refused to say whether all 275,000 people would be able to use the exchange at the same time without crashing the system. Instead, she dodged specifics about the progress programmers have been making on the website’s repair efforts and how CMS would be able to meet its Nov. 30 deadline — the day the Obama administration has promised to have the site up and running “smoothly for the vast majority of users.”
“The system is getting better each week,” Bataille said. She didn’t specify whether the website would be completely fixed and glitch-free, though. Instead, she pointed to other ways consumers could sign up for insurance through the exchanges “whether that is via direct enrollment with insurance companies to meet the pent up consumer demand or … calling the call centers or enrolling in person.”
The Obama administration’s repeated refusal to provide specifics on when the site would actually be functioning after the end-of-November deadline is not surprising given the wide-ranging technological and operational problems with the site.
It’s even more discouraging since less than 50,000 people have signed up for health insurance through the federal exchange, according to unofficial estimates reported by the Wall Street Journal.
And it doesn’t appear to be getting better.
According to tech experts, the sorry state of the current website does little to inspire confidence that it can be fixed and functional in less than three weeks.
“When I visited HealthCare.gov on October 1, that was the worst piece of software I’ve ever experienced in my life,” said Luke Chung, founder and CEO of the software company FMS. “It had nothing to do with too many users. It couldn’t serve one user.”
According to Sumit Nijhawan, CEO of Infogix, a data security firm working with private insurers, even if the White House can fix the problems associated with the site, they're going to find new ones immediately. Nijhawan also warned that the systems that allow CMS and health insurance companies to exchange information are nowhere close to being ready, meaning tech problems could last years.
- See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/11/13/No-Hope-Left-Obamacare-s-Website-Techies-Say#sthash.QJKyyqKG.dpuf
If Obama’s Socialized Health Insurance Tax has little or no chance of financial success in 5 years, then why do Federal politicians in “both” political parties try to replace instead of ABOLISH Obamacare?
Shouldn’t have been written in COBAL on a TRS-80 hooked up to a toaster and a solar calculator
Don’t tell them. It’s true.
Have seen major SW developments far more complex then this silly thing simply abandoned and re-started. Once you go down the wrong roads, too hard from a coding standpoint to change it.
It’s a good thing. Means the whole damn crazy thing collapses.
That image made my day, thank you.
This is really great news! Just hope the GOP lets the RATs twist in the wind on their own with this turd!
REPEAL
Just think. It only cost us 680 . MILLION . DOLLARS.
That’s more than two bucks for every man, woman, and child in the country.
I could get much better software from SourceForge.
In fact, my kids can write better software and even web interfaces with amazingly prmitive tools.
Just laughing and laughing at your excellent graphic.
The one good thing the Pubbies have done thus far is staying clear of the Obamacare mess. Their fingerprints are not on the “weapon” and they remained outside of the yellow police line tape. :)
bttt
But the ACORN “navigators” will have all your personal information. What could possibly go wrong?
Great Graphic, now I have to go get a paper towel and wipe my coffee off of my keyboard!
It only cost us 680 . MILLION . DOLLARS.
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Sunk costs — thus far. What I want to know is where is the new money coming from to re-work the failed website? We are paying twice for the same thing so how is the re-do being paid for? What is the source of the additional funds that are needed for the “remediation” work?
I seriously doubt there was ever funding allocated for such work since they thought this thing was just going to be a smashing success and run itself.
What was the cost of developing that website again? Someone has defrauded the taxpayers out of a lot of money. Whomever chose the contractor, and oversaw the project should do a fair amount of jail time, like 50 years in the electric chair. The contractor should be sued for all funds paid out, and made to endure 50 years of water torture.
Haven’t laughed so hard in a long time!
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