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Athough the OP's assessment of ACA may be rosey and premature, I can see conservative's consternation as they have so little experience in initiating any major legislation in a generation.
This whole ACA and roll out thing is a newby for GOPers. When was the last major legislation rolled-out by the GOP?
GOP has been more focused on providing us Wars and Financial collapse.
why is ANY "major legislation" required ?
why does every liberal feel the need to "fix" things ?
obama has proven time and time again, hes unqualified to be a dog catcher, why on earth would any reasonable person want that booger eater to "fix" healthcare ?
name one war the GOP has started without democrat support ?
I'll wait, go ahead.
financial collapse ?
is that anything like $17 trillion and counting in debt ?
Anyone or anything that requires the entire population to buy a service then regulates what that service must run like, is the creation of a monopoly. This is designed to fail ( bankrupt) insurer after insurer, until they all leave the market or go bankrupt.
There is no possibility of this NOT failing. Whether they make the website work or not eventually, is of no matter. The entire concept is incomprehensibly stupid.
Corporate thinking promotes monopolies. They see it as top of the hierarchy. The unsustainability or imbalance of it isn't part of the perspective.
One of the diagnostics were clear that the servers couldn't process the volume.
What would you call that?
I would call that not enough information.
Depends on why the servers can't process and what is creating the traffic. All of the technical specifics have been vague and second hand.
Nothing that is verifiable, though not comprehensive has pointed to the site getting anywhere near traffic than say Amazon. CGI Federals complaints pointed to money and not enough time.
I call it insane that they didn't do load testing on a new web application prior to a major rollout. Anyone with as much as a bachelors in computer science knows that is an integral part of any rollout.
I would also call it terrifying that we are going to rely on an administration for health care when they can't even get a website up and running for over $600 million (something many developers do in their free time for no cost at all)
The servers seem to be using Akamai, so that certainly shouldn't be an issue. The website seems to suffer from the same thing the bill did and that is rushing things through just to get it done.
The servers seem to be using Akamai, so that certainly shouldn't be an issue. The website seems to suffer from the same thing the bill did and that is rushing things through just to get it done.
But volume of traffic was an issue, so obviously they should have done more testing. They shouldn't have been surprised by something as basic as traffic
The Core of the ACA Works Just Fine...The Website will come.
I listened to a report on NPR News last evening in which it was said ... because of Congressionally-approved legislation (over many years) ... there were about 55 separate contractors who worked on the software for the ACA website and that there was no one lead contractor. Because of the quantity of contractors/sub-contractors working on the project there was no complete, top-to-bottom trial run. One tech company had a contract to work on one portion of the site. Another had a contract to work somewhere else on the site, etc. The entire start-up of the project - the website portion - may have been doomed from the beginning because of Congressional mandates to disallow one principal contractor who would then, could then be held responsible for it. At the state levels there were some early glitches which were apparently quickly resolved, and in this same report the persons responsible for those websites, the state employees/supervisors, commented that they worked with the lead contractor or sole contractor performing the design tasks. As they discuss the delays/glitches in the federal ACA website the Congresspersons might also take a look at the laws/mandates/policies they've approved which may, probably have contributed greatly to the problems.
Somebody cue up the clip from " Animal House" where Kevin Bacon screams " Remain calm, all is well!" just before he's trampled.
People are fleeing in panic AWAY from Obamacare.
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