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MSNBC Forced to Abandon ObamaCare Exchange Demonstration

Yeah, this is normal, even with years to prep. Look at games like WOW. They already have an up and running game, and every time a new expansion comes out it is tested, they try to prepare for opening day, and even now stagger the load and still every time a new release comes out it is a disaster. That is their job, and people keep on playing. Apple just went through the whole opening day thing, and the reality is that opening day is a huge deluge of crap all at once. You can say what you want about preparation, but simply the reality is to be prepared for the opening day rush is to actually piss away money because you will probably never meet that amount of volume again. This is why the penalties will not go into effect until nest year to allow for people to have time to get health coverage and to shop around. Nothing is perfect on it's first day and expectations of it being perfect are just people looking for it to fail. Let us not forget Obamacare has faced a number of people trying to kill it and make it fail. It looks like the best you will do is just make it's start a little problematic. The thing is no one is pulling the plug on it simply because of this and cheer now while you can because it is here and will be here tomorrow.

Connecticut had 10,000 visitors in the last 3 hours that is not heavy traffic . And only had 22 enrollments. so out of 10k only 22 thought it was a good deal and enrolled. I bet they all are unhealthy with preexisting conditions which will just raise premiums for the healthy that much higher

and you actually trying to compare a game that has over 8 million players that has over a billion lines of codding that is play in almost every country in the world to a simple web site to sell 1 product

your such an ideologue sycophant Obama can give you a turd sandwich and you would say that is the best dam sandwich I ever had. you don't give a rats ass about the cost to the middle class as long as you get yours the hell with who has to pay for it. all of America can get put on part time you wouldn't care. all of Americas health insurance can double you would care. as long as you get to keep your precious little train wreck
 
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If you you think it is acceptable that a user interface like that can fail to retrieve those security questions and just keep right on going like nothing happened, then your experience is more thorough in bad practices than it should have been.

Your claim would be more credible if you had been able to distinguish between a coding problem and a networking problem
 
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Lots of sites handle huge traffic and have interfaces that work. But you'd expect that from the private sector where competence is required. Their web designer also dabbles in aeronautics.

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It happens to World of Warcraft. Servers get overloaded.

Declaring a victory by saying that overloaded servers means a fail...

You guys are hilarious.
 
Your claim would be more credible if you had been able to distinguish between a coding problem and a networking problem

There were both types of problems. The networking problem explains why there was a wait time of many minutes before getting to the login page. The coding problem is that the page with the security questions loaded without questions and allowed you to proceed as though they had been loaded making it impossible to proceed. Anyone responsible for a rollout that went like that in the private sector would be fired so fast it would make their head spin. It was embarrassing incompetence. They had a few years to work on it. There's no excuse for that.
 
There were both types of problems. The networking problem explains why there was a wait time of many minutes before getting to the login page. The coding problem is that the page with the security questions loaded without questions and allowed you to proceed as though they had been loaded making it impossible to proceed. Anyone responsible for a rollout that went like that in the private sector would be fired so fast it would make their head spin. It was embarrassing incompetence. They had a few years to work on it. There's no excuse for that.

I see you're still adhering to your faulty analysis of the situation.
 
I see you're still adhering to your faulty analysis of the situation.

Yep. The launch was an embarrassment. When users couldn't even get past the registration phase, it's an abject failure. This was as nicely as it could be stated, as quoted by Reuters:

"The level of functionality they're offering today is worse than we might have anticipated. I expected a level where you could at least get to the point of shopping," said Austin Bordelon, an analyst with healthcare consulting group Leavitt Partners, who monitored federal and state marketplaces through the day. "But really, you just can't get through the door."
 
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