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U.S. administration plans Obamacare website upgrade this weekend
Reuters ^ | November 15, 2013 | David Morgan

Posted on 11/16/2013 9:12:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The Obama administration hopes to upgrade the performance of its faltering HealthCare.gov website this weekend by adding new capacity just two weeks before a crucial deadline for having it running smoothly, a presidential adviser said on Friday.

"We will be bringing additional servers online, as well as additional database capacity and data storage. With these upgrades, we will significantly increase the system's capacity," President Barack Obama's website adviser Jeffrey Zients told reporters in a conference call.

HealthCare.gov, the administration's Obamacare web portal for offering subsidized private health coverage to uninsured Americans in 36 of the 50 states, has been at the center of a political firestorm over technical problems that overwhelmed its October 1 launch and have dogged the system ever since....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: internet; obama
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1 posted on 11/16/2013 9:13:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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2 posted on 11/16/2013 9:14:29 PM PST by devolve (- "He's (Obama) just 'too talented' to do what 'ordinary people' do." - Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett)
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Does anyone still care if it ever works?


3 posted on 11/16/2013 9:15:30 PM PST by ToastedHead
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Wow, this weekend?

Weekend's already half over.

Forty-eight business hours?

4 posted on 11/16/2013 9:17:38 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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Obamacare IT team weekend meeting:
5 posted on 11/16/2013 9:20:46 PM PST by ToastedHead
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Mo money, mo money, mo money!!!!!!


6 posted on 11/16/2013 9:21:50 PM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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...because tens of millions of Americans are panting to log on and get started on their first insurance exchange premium payments.

The website is merely the first whiff of bad breath and body odor that tells you this blind date might not have a happy ending.


7 posted on 11/16/2013 9:22:10 PM PST by lurk
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Now they will able to handle 3 users at a time without crashing... too often?


8 posted on 11/16/2013 9:22:31 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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Monday Morning Update:
9 posted on 11/16/2013 9:23:01 PM PST by ToastedHead
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a website that works 8-5 weekdays

does it pay union dues?


10 posted on 11/16/2013 9:23:03 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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U.S. administration plans Obamacare website upgrade this weekend

Let me guess, an app that doesn't work the way it's supposed to but it still installs a toolbar on you browser and resets your homepage.

11 posted on 11/16/2013 9:26:01 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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So, let’s see!

In two weeks the pro’s can totally unf**k a $800 million website that has taken over three years to produce?

Maybe we should put Mooch in charge of an audit of the no-bid cost plus contract let to her friends.

Perhaps this would disclose how many millions got funneled back to an unknown Chicago bank account!


12 posted on 11/16/2013 9:28:05 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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WTF evuh...


13 posted on 11/16/2013 9:29:48 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Obamacare Payroll Department:
14 posted on 11/16/2013 9:30:21 PM PST by ToastedHead
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You are giving up too soon. With enough hope and love, they’ll get it fired up in a jiffy.


15 posted on 11/16/2013 9:32:17 PM PST by ToastedHead
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No, this is the upgrade that causes blood to drip out of your computer.


16 posted on 11/16/2013 9:33:51 PM PST by ToastedHead
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These incompetent clowns still haven't figured out that it's mot a capacity problem? They can add servers 'til the cows come home, but it won't "fix" bottlenecks that are systemic and haven't even been identified!

And it certainly won't fix the browsing feature that was either crippled or removed, so that the "shoppers" would be unable to see how bad it is, until after they've surrendered all their personal data, and have to deal with sticker shock.

17 posted on 11/16/2013 9:34:49 PM PST by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
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They are definitely on something


18 posted on 11/16/2013 9:42:21 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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Is it the first trillion dollar website ?


19 posted on 11/16/2013 9:42:47 PM PST by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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The websites aren’t broken nearly as much as reported. This “roll out disaster” is just a ruse to cover for the real disaster of ObamaCare — that the high monthly premiums and massive deductibles are driving people away in droves. No IT guy can fix that.


20 posted on 11/16/2013 9:43:26 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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