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There’s been a crisis of confidence created in the dysfunctional nature of the website, the canceling of policies and sticker shock from some people,” said Ms. Mikulski, a strong supporter of the 2010 health care law."
The notes indicate that by Oct. 8, one week after the exchange opened, administration officials had begun to realize that its problems were widespread and could not be easily fixed. No sooner was one problem solved than others popped up. The documents show that officials were focused on addressing individual bugs, rather than the larger issue: The website was not working properly from Day 1.
The documents show that officials debated whether to allow consumers to shop for insurance without creating personal, password-protected accounts. The Obama administration eventually allowed such “anonymous shopping,” but, according to the notes, officials realized that the premium estimates shown on the website were not entirely accurate because they did not reflect different prices charged to people of different ages.
On Oct. 11, it was noted that the website was inaccurately calculating premium subsidies for low-and middle-income people. On Oct. 15, it was noted that some consumers had been pushed into subsidized private health insurance plans “when they should be in Medicaid.”
Ms. Tavenner said that many of these problems had been addressed, that the website was improving by the day and that it would “work smoothly for the vast majority of users” by the end of November.
Under the health care law, most Americans will be required to have insurance next year or may be subject to financial penalties.
Senator Kay Hagan, Democrat of North Carolina, said the administration should delay the penalties if the website was still not working in December.
Ms. Tavenner rejected the proposal, saying, “There are no plans to delay the individual mandate.”
New York Times Robert Pear with Eric Lipton contributed reporting.
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Saddam Hussein would call it the mother of all glitches, and Baghdad Bob would say everything is going swimmingly.
Ahhhh, the good old days when your tax dollars were used to bomb the shit out of some bad guys far away instead of ourselves. I miss that.
You know if our enemies wanted to screw up the Obama administration by hacking our infrastructure, they never could have done it this well. They must love this shit. I imagine there are hackers working around the world right now like sharks on a dead whale carcass. They are sending in the baby hackers to get some experience with an easy safe attack that will get hidden behind the incompetence of its target.
The ObamaCare "website" is simply the front end for an series of applications that apparently comprise 500 million lines of code**. If the relatively simple, front end functionality doesn't work, there is no reason to believe that the more complicated back-end business functions will work.
500M lines of code is a huuuuuge system. Expect years of work for healthcare.gov to work from stem to stern. Actually, it'll probably never work as Congress will vote to kill it when they start to look at the ultimate price tag.
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Were the President to get a prostate check and put it on the ObamaCare website they could claim at least a small moral victory.
I built many data driven websites.
The beginning point is drawing up a ruthlessly honest set of requirements for functionality.
You can't do that with a 2000 page document that was the ACA law, and the thousands of regulations that have been added by fiat.
No degree of nerd skill can fix this initial failure to define what functionality you desire.
Put some long, blonde hair on Obama and he's General Custer.
Maybe he'll finally learn what it feels like to be thrown under the bus.
It's still all about Obama and his ego. It's never about the nation or the individual being screwed by this horrible law.
@April
It's all about Obama, his supporters... and graft.
Certainly, ST - that too.
Shouting Thomas ... reference the impossible task.
Amen.
I cannot even imagine a database system based upon the PPACA. And I have a couple of decades of Db experience.
Put some long, blonde hair on Obama and he's General Custer
More like RuPaul.
"The couple — Lee, 60, and JoEllen, 59 — have been paying $550 a month for their health coverage — a plan that offers solid coverage, not one of the skimpy plans Obama has criticized. But recently, Kaiser informed them the plan would be canceled at the end of the year because it did not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The couple would need to find another one. The cost would be around double what they pay now, but the benefits would be worse."
Loyal Obama Supporters, Canceled by Obamacare
The dems in the senate met today to figure how to spin this to their advantage.
And what will getting it right mean? It will mean the ANNIHILATION of the middle class. That's what doubling the cost of the health insurance of MILLIONS will do. And since millions will no longer have hardly anything in the way of surplus cash to spend it will mean a permanently suppressed economy. Maybe when the misery deepens enough a genuine opposition will arise. Failing that it's enslavement to the state for a long long time.
B-b-b-but they tested it for 2 whole weeks.
How could it have failed?
(easy, as you build, you test - unit test, system test, stress test; they waited until it was "completed")
ndspinelli said...
Put some long, blonde hair on Obama and he's General Custer.
No, Custer was in a situation beyond his control without sufficient backup.
This is more like MacArthur on Bataan after they found out the US Navy no longer existed.
Nice post, Obama not only believes that everyone should have healthcare, but that everyone should also have their own identity thief. Then, we will have achieved true equality!
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