Posted on 10/31/2013 5:39:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CBS News has learned the website failed with a small test pool of 200 to 300 people that included employees from the government and insurance companies.
CMS employees were provided fake personal information to enter into HealthCare.gov rather than their own data and were given a date that testing would begin. However, on that date, the employees were told it was being postponed.
When the testing finally took place in late September, the testers started trying to create an application. Just a couple of pages into the process, everything "ground to a stop," said one source.
"It froze. It couldn't go forward. It crashed," the source said.
A couple of days later, testers tried again and had a similar outcome.
"It was unequivocally clear from testing ... this wasn't ready," said a source close to the testing.
The account is in stark contrast to the testimony Tuesday from Marilyn Tavenner, the head of CMS.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Remember a time when the US sent men to the moon and they usually lived to come back?
Those days are over.
seems like maybe they would have been better served had they agreed to delay the implementation. America certainly would have been.
LOL...reminds of the MSNBC’s lame motto: “Lean Forward!” It’s the perfect stance for being kicked in the butt.
Yeah, Apollo 13 would’ve been REALLY screwed.
I expect the ObamaFurer(TM) to now "pivot" his laser like focus on fix the internet.</sarc>
“Remember a time when the US sent men to the moon and they usually lived to come back?”
Actually, it gives people who don’t believe men went to the moon even more reason to doubt: how could a government so inept at virtually all things technological ever achieve anything more than a PR stunt in a Disney studio?
This website wouldn’t even have been as difficult to pull off as a faked moon landing, given all the money thrown at it, yet these people still managed to eff it up!
Having worked in IT for 34 years, I know of one constant. If the date is set in stone, quality becomes irrelevant. If you were that concerned with quality, you would implement when the system works, not when some manager picks a date out of thin air.
That reminds me of a favorite 1970s cult government conspiracy movie of mine.
At an unspecified time,[2] Capricorn One—the first manned mission to Mars—is on the launch pad. Such NASA authorities as Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook) realize, too late, that a faulty life-support system supplied by a corrupt NASA contractor will kill the astronauts during the flight. As the manned space program needs a success to continue, they find themselves forced to falsify the landing rather than cancel the mission
Capricorn One 1978
OJ Simpson played one of the three astronauts.
All this is being orchestrated from the bowels of the white hut. Conservatives demise is very near! I think it has gone beyond being survivable...every aspect of gubermint has been infiltrated and corrupted!
At this point I am so glad George Washington never inhabited the White House. It would be a stain on a great American man!
I keep seeing images from events, news and movies about people living behind the Berlin Wall, where the Wall went through neighborhoods, that people went all out trying to escape from behind the wall, by balloon, by concealment in cars and trucks, by underground.
And how the east German police built up a MASSIVE database on each and every person, literally keeping a warehouse full of each persons actual scent.
This is Obamacare, its the same thing, a massive database of each and every person, if you do not fit into the future socialist agenda much like pure blood of an Aryan state you are toast.
It’s NEW COKE....
What it help to put in a call to Algore?
The hilarious thing is the Republicans offered them a face saving out, but Obama and Reed failed to take it. They petulantly refused to negotiate.
This is why I snorted when they established the new “end of November” date. You can’t pinpoint IT problems with fixed dates. When Verizon’s data center goes down again, it’s just another facepalm.
“200 to 300 people”?
That’s quite a load test for something that was supposed to handle thousands to hundreds of thousands. And, even it failed. That shows the “high volume” excuse the Regime is using is just another lie.
In the Software Development Life Cycle, it is always Test that gets squeezed. Everybody else can miss their dates and it’s “oh well.” It always comes off the end and with a come-hell-or-high-water launch date, this is what you get.
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