Will Obamacare succeed where term limits failed?

[Husar]

The website problems are a bit overblown. Name any online product that had to meet that kind of demand on launch and succeeded... you can't. Overflowing servers are the norm with any launch.

"I could give a 12-year old a hundred bucks and he'd make me a website in three hours..."

It is indeed amazing how a government healthcare database is now equal to a myspace page. But it proves the Republicans right in that people are spoiled and want things they cannot afford.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

"I could give a 12-year old a hundred bucks and he'd make me a website in three hours..."

It is indeed amazing how a government healthcare database is now equal to a myspace page. But it proves the Republicans right in that people are spoiled and want things they cannot afford.

Oh come on. That kind of line is the usual snide political hyperbole. Such cheap shots have been a political norm, I feel certain, at least since the Greek city states. I dare say you could find a few home-grown German examples without stressing your google-fu all that much.

Gelcube is correct about the overwhelm factor. I put down most of the initial problems to the volume thing. Only the most recent spate of issues can be said to be design problems. It still wasn't that well thought out a web-site system -- they were planning on hits in the millions from the outset. That was the point of the program. Trouble free was never possible, but this was still a bit sloppy.

[Husar]

Oh come on. That kind of line is the usual snide political hyperbole. Such cheap shots have been a political norm, I feel certain, at least since the Greek city states. I dare say you could find a few home-grown German examples without stressing your google-fu all that much.

Gelcube is correct about the overwhelm factor. I put down most of the initial problems to the volume thing. Only the most recent spate of issues can be said to be design problems. It still wasn't that well thought out a web-site system -- they were planning on hits in the millions from the outset. That was the point of the program. Trouble free was never possible, but this was still a bit sloppy.

That's exactly what I said when I said it's funny that people compare a huge database with a myspace site.

And our country is quite a bit behind when it comes to utilizing technology in the public and some other sectors, I wasn't claiming that we're better. In fact we are worse. Just because I may have successfully acquired a reputation of being an Anglo-hater, that doesn't have to be true.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Lemur, are you suggesting that insurance would have saved his life?
Because from what you are suggesting, the guy lived his life without paying into insurance and died of a fast illness that would have killed him anyway. Sounds to me like he got away with 400k.