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    Default Re: Will Obamacare succeed where term limits failed?

    Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
    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 agree insofar as the website not being the "big" story, but the magnitude of the technical failure that is heathcare.gov is most definitely not being overblown....

    They didn't begin any actual testing of the site until just a couple weeks before launch- far too late to make any significant changes. But, even with the testing they did, the website was crashing under a load of just a few hundred users- on a website that was expecting to receive millions. Some problems are to be expected when you roll out a major e-commerce portal. The problems with heathcare.gov go far beyond that. It was essentially non-functional on its go-live date.

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    The President's healthcare sign-up web page was supposed to handle tens of thousands of people at once. But in a trial run days before its launch, just a few hundred users flatlined the site.

    Despite the problems, federal health officials pushed aside the crash cart and rolled out HealthCare.gov on October 1 as planned, The Washington Post reported.
    Last edited by Xiahou; 10-29-2013 at 13:38.
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