No need to shut down Obamacare. None of the exchange websites work anyways

[denner]

Quote from CaptainObvious:

Does nothing to address the real problem of rising heathcare cost.

One of the most rabid leftist bloggers I've had the misfortune of reading has repeatedly made this point. Essentially, he makes "just enough" not to qualify for the real big subsidies and is of the age that he has a few more years before he can enroll in medicare. His quote of $16,000+ a year for his wife and he (also with higher out of pocket costs), was a giant step backwards.

As you've said, (and he would agree), this DOES NOTHING to address costs and simply forces more people to pay for LESS coverage and more out of pocket costs.

Even a stupid fuck like Ricter should be able to understand this simple concept.

 

[gwb-trading]

Complete utter IT incompetence!

Questionable design blamed for health website woes
http://www.wral.com/questionable-design-blamed-for-health-website-woes/12973348/

A decision to require that consumers create online accounts before they can browse available health plans under President Barack Obama's overhaul appears to have led to many of the program's technical problems, independent experts say.
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The administration threw in additional computing hardware to handle the volume and deployed software experts to patch the mechanism for creating accounts, but reports of delays persisted Tuesday.
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The Obama administration says government technical experts are on their way to solving the accounts creation problem. Independent experts say other glitches may be lurking as the more complicated functions of the website come into play, including real-time verification of identity, legal residence, family composition and income.

"My suspicion is once they get these problems resolved, then we are going to the next layer, and that will expose new problems," said Curtis, the software quality expert.

"Since this system was developed in a rush they did not have time to thoroughly test it," he added. "The American people are now doing that for them."

 

[jem]

its big govt cementing in income inequality.

its goal is to make everyone but the top 1% pay all their disposable income for college, .taxes and then healthcare.

in the end the question will be... why work your standard of living is no better and you lose 50 to 60 hours a week working and commuting.

Then it will be chavez states of america.

 

[denner]

Quote from jem:



in the end the question will be... why work your standard of living is no better and you lose 50 to 60 hours a week working and commuting.

Exactly right. I've thought about that often the past few years, especially in light of how many people were living off of extended unemployment benefits, the uptick in food stamp usage and a host of other "freebie's" that didn't even exist a decade ago.

The more the govt. subsidizes the lower rungs of society (in reality it's a de-facto subsidy for big crony interests as well), the less incentive there is for the average Joe to slave away, when all of those savings will just be pilfered by the higher education racket, the medical cartel or any of a host of other protected interests.

The reality is ALL of those costs should have dropped in a big way following the 2008 implosion...but that's where the expansion of the balance sheet by you know who, saved the major cartels and crony interests.

That whole "we need to make college affordable for students" speech back in 09 was a literal LOL moment, for its complete absurdity...i.e. we need to go into hyperdrive pumping another credit bubble to replace the previous one...ad infinitum.

 

[Lucrum]

I just read that the Obamacare websites have virtual "waiting rooms" where applicants wait their turn to sign up.

You couldn't make this shit up.

 

[gwb-trading]

Quote from Lucrum:

I just read that the Obamacare websites have virtual "waiting rooms" where applicants wait their turn to sign up.

You couldn't make this shit up.

Yes, this is a way of slowing the incoming queue in an attempt to keep your site operating. Think of it as flow control that only allows a small number of people at a time into see the main system during peak hours. It works in situation where you have a good website architecture but experience high peak loads at particular hours.

Unfortunately in this case, the issue was not really a load problem it was a set of basic website architecture issues (showing the complete incompetence of the designers/implementers). The ingress flow control provided by the virtual waiting room did not fix the problems because even limited load caused the Obamacare site to be completely unstable.

 

[gwb-trading]

Let me ask a question.

Is there a single example of any individual being able to successfully sign up for Obamacare on the main healthcare.gov website?

Has a single person been able to complete the entire process?




(and I don't mean all the Democratic operatives who lied about being able to sign up.)

 

[denner]

Quote from gwb-trading:

Let me ask a question.

Is there a single example of any individual being able to successfully sign up for Obamacare on the main healthcare.gov website?

Has a single person been able to complete the entire process?




(and I don't mean all the Democratic operatives who lied about being able to sign up.)

Queue Ricter furiously scrambling thru leftist propoganda sites for an appropriate "cut and paste".

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from gwb-trading:

Yes, this is a way of slowing the incoming queue in an attempt to keep your site operating. Think of it as flow control that only allows a small number of people at a time into see the main system during peak hours. It works in situation where you have a good website architecture but experience high peak loads at particular hours.

Unfortunately in this case, the issue was not really a load problem it was a set of basic website architecture issues (showing the complete incompetence of the designers/implementers). The ingress flow control provided by the virtual waiting room did not fix the problems because even limited load caused the Obamacare site to be completely unstable.

I don't know the first thing about being a hacker. But if I did I'd go "attack" some sites right now just for the hell of it.

 

[gwb-trading]

Quote from Lucrum:

I don't know the first thing about being a hacker. But if I did I'd go "attack" some sites right now just for the hell of it.

You don't really want to do that.... after all the Obamacare websites don't need any additional help in failing.

You do bring up one concern however. I am involved in network security architecture IT projects for financial institutions - a consulting job that takes me on the road each week (I've also done HFT, Trading, and other financial software implementations.)

If the Obamacare website is so poorly designed and implemented that it falls apart under minor load due to basic architectural faults then is their Data Security Architecture much better. How soon until all the information people have entered on the healthcare.gov site is stolen by hackers?

This is a potential nightmare.