HealthCare Crash

From USA Today:
"Obama adviser: Demand overwhelmed HealthCare.gov"

The Obama administration's top technology expert explains why the government's health care website isn't working and what's being done to fix it.  The government website launched this week to sell health insurance was overwhelmed by up to five times as many users as it was designed to handle, President Obama's top technology adviser said Saturday in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY. U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said the government expected HealthCare.gov to draw 50,000 to 60,000 simultaneous users, but instead it has drawn as many as 250,000 at a time since it launched Oct. 1. Park's comments are the administration's most detailed explanation for the glitches that have frustrated millions of consumers who have tried to enter the site or complete applications for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. HealthCare.gov's enrollment functions are shut down at off-peak hours this weekend so technicians can make repairs to the site. ``We're obviously not satisfied with the performance,'' Park said. ``We're working 24-7.'' The administration's explanation didn't impress a Bush administration official who helped launch Part D in 2006. "Whoever thought it would draw 60,000 people wasn't reading the administration's press releases,'' said David Brailer, former national coordinator of health care information technology. "The Medicare Part D site was supposed to have 20,000 simultaneous users and was (built for) 150,000, and that was back when computing was done on an abacus. It isn't that hard.'' The exchange misfired almost immediately upon its launch. The explanation is "a little geekalicious,'' he said.

^ SNL said it best: "You (Obama) claimed millions were without health insurance and yet the website to give it to them couldn't withstand millions of hits." - And these are the "intelligent" people who are going to make things better? I also "liked" that the head guy explaining everything officially sounds like a 12 year old girl (lol.) I have said it before and it seems to be coming true. No one (including the "specialists and experts") that designed Obamacare seems to have a clue about anything relating to it. They are merely adding millions of people to a crumbling system rather than fixing the system first and then adding to it. You don't add more rats to a sinking ship - you get the rats off first, fix the ship and then add the rats back. ^

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/05/health-care-website-repairs/2927597/