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ObamaCare site to go offline for more repairs
The Hill ^

Posted on 10/07/2013 11:22:53 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

ObamaCare site to go offline for more repairs By Sam Baker - 10/07/13 01:36 PM ET

Healthcare.gov, the primary website to enroll in health insurance through ObamaCare, will be taken offline again Monday night for improvements, following weekend work designed to fix major technical problems.

The site will be offline beginning at 1 a.m. in order to improve its capacity and make software changes, the Health and Human Services Department said.

HHS said the site had improved as a result of work done over the weekend. The site was taken offline during nonpeak hours to address widespread technical errors that prevented users from creating accounts, a step required before they can compare insurance plans.

"The work done to increase access to HealthCare.gov in light of the overwhelming demand is beginning to show results," HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters said.

HHS has said the primary problem with healthcare.gov has been the unexpectedly heavy traffic to the site. It received roughly 8.6 million visits in the first week of its launch, overwhelming its servers.

But some technical experts say the site's problems are also structural, and HHS acknowledged Monday that its changes are not limited to adding more capacity.

The fixes scheduled to begin at 1 a.m. Tuesday include software changes and moving part of the system to a new type of hardware, HHS said.

"Our work to expand the site’s capacity has led to more people successfully applying for and enrolling in affordable health coverage online, with wait times being shortened by approximately 50 percent since Friday," Peters said. "But we won’t stop until the doors to HealthCare.gov are wide open, and at the end of the six-month open enrollment, millions of Americans gain affordable coverage.”


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: healthcaregov; obamacare
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To: erlayman

Define functional. In CT the health care exchange was down for a significant part of the first day. Out of 23k visits, only a few hundred signed up.


41 posted on 10/07/2013 1:02:15 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Lou L

Sites like Amazon and Netflix cope just fine with much more traffic on a daily basis. They are scared to admit that the bloated and inefficient code is the reason for all the failures.


42 posted on 10/07/2013 1:06:37 PM PDT by matt04
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To: molson209
Maybe they don’t want you to find out the prices

You can't know the price until you pass the funding!!

43 posted on 10/07/2013 1:06:39 PM PDT by Roccus
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To: Sub-Driver

They had, what, three years to work on this and it is this buggy?! Who wrote the code for this disaster, some kids smoking crack?


44 posted on 10/07/2013 1:07:29 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Carry_Okie

IIRC, in CT less than 200 people signed up on the first day.


45 posted on 10/07/2013 1:08:30 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Army Air Corps

It was done by the company in Canada that does their national health care stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGI_Group


46 posted on 10/07/2013 1:12:26 PM PDT by nascarnation (Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
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To: nascarnation

And to whom did the Canadian company outsource this crap?


47 posted on 10/07/2013 1:14:02 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sub-Driver

I really have no choice but to apply for coverage for my family and since they (the state) sent me a paper application I am using it. Long, but reliable and doesn’t crash. And I can make a straightforward copy before sending it.


48 posted on 10/07/2013 1:14:57 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Army Air Corps

I don’t know that they did.
I assumed they used some of their 69,000 employees to do it.
I may be incorrect.


49 posted on 10/07/2013 1:15:20 PM PDT by nascarnation (Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
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To: Sub-Driver
Sorry, there's a delay to log in right now

We have a lot of visitors on the site right now.
Please stay on this page.

We're working to make the experience better, and we don’t want you to lose your place in line. We’ll send you to the login page as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience!

In a hurry? You might be able to apply faster at our Marketplace call center. Call 1-800-3(F)18(U)-2(C)5(K)9(Y)6(O) to talk with one of our trained representatives about applying over the phone.

50 posted on 10/07/2013 1:27:07 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: nascarnation

http://washingtonexaminer.com/canadian-firm-hired-to-build-troubled-obamacare-exchanges/article/2536805


51 posted on 10/07/2013 1:28:50 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brown Deer

Of course the MSM are reporting indignantly about how this was outsourced to a foreign country, right?


52 posted on 10/07/2013 1:33:14 PM PDT by nascarnation (Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
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To: Sub-Driver
Anyone getting health insurance through these clowns deserves what they get. Come on. Our reps did not even read the bill. Their vote was forced. The senate voted on Christmas eve before the new Republican Senator could stop it. The feds decision was unprecedented and schizophrenic. Obama has illegally granted waivers to all his cronies and political friends. Only a fool would sign-up. This government wont be around long enough to prosecute anyone for failure to pay.
53 posted on 10/07/2013 1:56:47 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: matt04
IIRC, in CT less than 200 people signed up on the first day.

In California it was (appropriately) Zero.

54 posted on 10/07/2013 2:04:04 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (ZeroCare: Make them pay; do not delay.)
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To: LucyT

On Nov. 26, 2012 Amazon sold 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories.

Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/27/at-peak-amazon-sold-a-whopping-306-items-per-second-in-2012/

and 0bama is blaming the slowdown on 9 million visitors (if true) just looking, in the first week?


55 posted on 10/07/2013 2:11:43 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Army Air Corps
And to whom did the Canadian company outsource this crap?


56 posted on 10/07/2013 3:21:41 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: Roccus

I’ve been trying since it opened just to get a price and I have been unable to get past verifying my wifes ssn ,, keeps failing on that and kicking me back to the start...


57 posted on 10/07/2013 3:24:30 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: Neidermeyer

See?

Just what I said.


58 posted on 10/07/2013 3:47:19 PM PDT by Roccus
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To: All

I haven’t paid much attention today. Has the media found it’s “successful” applicants yet. I mean anyone who isn’t named Chad.


59 posted on 10/07/2013 6:25:18 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: ryan71

According to obama the law is already funded.


60 posted on 10/07/2013 6:27:28 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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