The Obama administration fixes ACA website - it's fine now

Up and running and if you haven't signed up, or interested in seeing what the ACA has to offer you... visit the site.

http://tinyurl.com/lpj2kjq

And on a more serious note NPR said tonight if you make signing up difficult the healthy young will be more inclined to just pay the fine.

FredHayek wrote: And on a more serious note NPR said tonight if you make signing up difficult the healthy young will be more inclined to just pay the fine.

The healthy young will be more inclined in paying the $95 dollars fine no matter how easy it is to sign up.

You mean Obama was wrong about that too? Tech savvy adults used to websites working in seconds would easily get frustrated by this website they keep shutting down to repair.

hahahaha.....I couldn't even leave the site...LOL

Just out of curiosity....I tried to sign up. Was sent to the local Colorado site and this is what I got.

java.lang.RuntimeException: Error creating mediator case instance: FAC0D9B03AAE11E38F6F3DD647772A9E for mediator instance: FABEB6D03AAE11E38F6F3DD647772A9E

Walter L Newton wrote: Up and running and if you haven't signed up, or interested in seeing what the ACA has to offer you... visit the site.

http://tinyurl.com/lpj2kjq

:rofllol This is pretty funny, but this was obviously fairly easy to make a fake site with no malicious intent... imagine if so poor Obamabot finds a fake link that steals his identity and then steals the last of his "Obama money".

Tried a different approach and got this message.

Thank you for your patience while we work to fix a technical issue. Please contact us at 1-855-PLANS-4-YOU (1-855 752-6749) if you need assistance.

Consumer Reports is also giving the website a thumbs down.

"Communications between the administration and contractors improved over the weekend as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began negotiating agreements with contractors on responsibility and deadlines for repairs, people involved in the project say. They hope to have a plan before a Congressional hearing set for Thursday."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/us/in ... hare&_r=3&

They should have been doing this MONTHS before this website opened. "responsibility and deadlines for repairs" that's how it works in the real world. In this situation no one seems to want to take responsibility. In the private corporate world heads would have already rolled and people fired.

Does anyone trust this project with your personal data and the future of your health care?

"Nevertheless, disarray has distinguished the project. In the last 10 months alone, government documents show, officials modified hardware and software requirements for the exchange seven times. It went live on Oct. 1 before the government and contractors had fully tested the complete system. Delays by the government in issuing specifications for the system reduced the time available for testing."

I always get behind the wheel of my car and figure out later if the brakes are working. In another thread I predicted that the problems were deeper than just a simple "fill out the form" or server load capacities.

I've worked for the Federal government, for 15 years, as a programmer, I'm fully aware of the multitudes or hoops that you are required to jump through. And if there is a kink in anyone of those hoops, the whole process falls into disarray.

The administration and those in charge have used commercial websites and their glitches and held that up to the American public.

Commercial websites rarely try to open, full blown and totally realized. Ebay started on some guys home computer in his apartment, with very little features (I know, I was one of his first registered users).

He scaled the system as he saw demand and added needed features as he saw business opportunities.

The same thing can be said about Amazon, Apple's Itunes Store, airline booking sites and a myriad of other commercial websites that handle millions of transactions.

The administration has admitted to little or no testing of the site before it went live. You just don't do that. That alone shows a total lack of competence in itself.

The internet has been available to the public since around 1992 (I was on it as far back as 1978, yes, the basic infrastructure was in place that long ago, it was called Arpanet/Darpanet, look it up). There are over 20 years of an operational world wide web experience in the private Information Technology community of how to do this right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

The American public deserves better for 600 million dollars. They got squat.