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So they say it is fixed and functioning smoothly

Tam

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Dec 1, 2013 10:57am

Two months after the troubled launch of its signature health care initiative, the Obama administration on Sunday announced that its online insurance marketplace now functions smoothly for the “vast majority” of consumers seeking to shop for and enroll in coverage.

“We’ve doubled the system’s capacity and HealthCare.gov can now support its intended volume,” said Jeff Zients, the administration official overseeing repairs to the system, on a conference call with reporters today.

The website can handle 50,000 concurrent users and 800,000 users per day, Zients said, marking a significant improvement from October when it crashed under the weight of just several thousand visitors. The site’s response time and error rate for applicants have also vastly improved, he said.

“In effect, we have widened the system’s on-ramp. It now has four lanes, instead of two,” Zients said of the account registration process, which had been a major bottleneck for consumers in early October.

The announcement kicks off an effort by the White House to rebound from an embarrassing and politically bruising eight week stretch that has taken a significant toll on President Obama’s poll numbers and credibility. Officials hope a vastly improved website will begin to rebuild confidence in the Affordable Care Act and reassure nervous congressional Democrats facing reelection next year.

A report released by the Department of Health and Human Services says the marketplace, which was down roughly 60 percent of the time in October, is now much more stable. As of late November, it was accessible and available daily more than 90 percent of the time, on average, officials said.

Today “is not a magic moment but a process of continual improvement over time,” said Julie Bataille, communications director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages the website.

The report identifies as root causes of the problems ”hundreds of software bugs, insufficient hardware and infrastructure.” It says technical teams have implemented 400 fixes, with more than 300 coming online in the last three weeks.

“We now believe the HealthCare.gov site works for the vast majority of users,” Bataille said. The administration has defined “vast majority” as 80 percent of consumers looking to enroll online.

Still, significant problems persist with the system.

The report implies that the website continues to experience unscheduled outages at least 5 percent of the time, and officials signaled that there are still concerns about slow-downs during high traffic periods.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius advised consumers in a blog post Saturday to visit the site at off-peak times — mornings, nights and weekends — to avoid delays and potential congestion. Officials said today they are not yet ready to begin aggressively summoning people to the site until it’s demonstrated to be stable.

“The door is open for new consumers and we invite them in,” said Bataille, “But our focus is on making sure that those who have tried to enroll in the past several weeks complete that process.”

Insurers continue to complain about unreliable data on applicants which they receive from the site. And the administration has not yet completed building the electronic payment system that will transfer government subsidies to insurance companies to help cover the cost of plans.

The new report also renews questions about the administration’s management of the project and why many of the touted “fixes” weren’t in place to begin with, including 24/7 “technical monitoring systems” and daily meetings about the site’s progress.

HHS concluded that the website was “fixable but only by significant changes to the management approach and a relentless focus on execution,” highlighting some serious shortcomings in those areas from the beginning.

The report also undermines the administration’s early explanation that unexpected heavy volume to HealthCare.gov was largely responsible for the outages consumers faced. The culprit turns out to have been significant software and hardware glitches.

“There is more work to be done to continue to improve and enhance the website and continue to improve the consumer experience in the weeks and months ahead,” the report says. “While we strive to innovate and improve our outreach and systems for reaching consumers, we believe we have met the goal of having a system that will work smoothly for the vast majority of users.”

SO 80% of people can now get on BUT is their PRIVATE info any more safe than it was in Oct.? Did HHS close the backdoor for good or are hackers still able to steal everyone's Identities via the Obamacare website? DID THEY FIX THE SECURITY? :?

Oh now that 80% of people can enroll and shop for an insurance policy, can they do anything more than put something in their shopping cart since according to Congressional Hearing testimony, the 40% of the website that is used for paying for what is in the enrollees shopping cart is NOT CREATED YET? If you can't pay your premiums before Jan 1st what good is the website as you will be without insurance thanks to Insurance companies canceling your policies due to OBAMACARE?

It might be just me but I don't think being able to get on the website was the biggest problem with that website. :roll:
 

hypocritexposer

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Tam said:
DID THEY FIX THE SECURITY? :?


Expert: Healthcare.gov Security Risks Even Worse After ‘Fix’

“It doesn’t appear that any security fixes were done at all,” David Kennedy, CEO of the online security firm TrustedSec, told the Washington Free Beacon.

Kennedy said fundamental safeguards missing from Healthcare.gov that were identified by his company more than a month ago have yet to be put in place.

“There are a number of security concerns already with the website, and that’s without even actually hacking the site, that’s just a purely passive analysis of [it],” he said. “We found a number of critical exposures that were around sensitive information, the ability to hack into the site, things like that. We reported those issues and none of those appear to have been addressed at all.”

http://freebeacon.com/expert-healthcare-gov-security-risks-even-worse-after-fix/
 

Tam

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Tonight they announce another surprise FIX, right after Obama claimed the website was working and people were to encourage people to sign up.

Since the payment part of Obamacare website is not built yet the Administrations plan is to have the Insurance companies, that they claim have been taking advantage of people for year, estimate what the government is going to owe them and then the government will just cut them a check. Once the website is done they will sit down and figure out what the government actually owes them for covering all those that signed up. ANd if the Insurance companies over estimated the amount THEY WILL REFUND THE DIFFERENCE. :wink: :roll:

They also announced there is no system to check to see if the people are telling the truth about their income that is being used to decide whether or not a person qualifies for a subsidy.

Can anyone see where this is a total wreck just waiting to bankrupt the US so Obama can blame the GREED OF THE INSURANCE COMPANIES FOR DESTROYING OBAMACARE AND FORCING HIM/THE GOVERNMENT TO MOVE TO SINGLE PAYER. :roll:
 

hypocritexposer

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They also announced there is no system to check to see if the people are telling the truth about their income that is being used to decide whether or not a person qualifies for a subsidy.

Of course not...the whole system is bigger than what they are capable of handling. They admitting as much, when they stated that they had to bring in "private sector" The big"government is not competent, or capable, of handling this.

obamacare has/will prove that "Big government" in the US is a failure. the pendulum will swing and conservatism will once again be the norm. It's going to have to swing hard right.

It's not the computer system that is the problem...it's the law that is the problem.

Maybe they can contract Amazon.com to deliver health care, by drone, no less. :lol:
 

Tam

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I seriously can not believe anyone would go to the Obamacare website and enter their private info considering there is NO SECURITY to protect their info from hackers. How stupid are these people. :roll:
 

Faster horses

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Tam said:
I seriously can not believe anyone would go to the Obamacare website and enter their private info considering there is NO SECURITY to protect their info from hackers. How stupid are these people. :roll:

Too many were stupid enough to vote for Obama, especially the second time. :cry:
 

Tam

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There is a lot I would like to know about why Obama does what he does but I don't think a team of top quality Doctors (unlike the ones you are going to get in Obamacare) could explain what is going on in that idiot's mind.


But maybe one of our resident Obama loving liberals could explain this.

If Obamacare is to be so great or in Biden's words "A BIG F'ING DEAL" why is Obama continually ILLEGALLY/UNCONSTITUTIONALLY pushing back the effects of his signature bill? :?

If it is SO GREAT why doesn't he just stand back and let it come into effect as written? NO extensions of effective dates, NO waivers for his supporters/UNIONS, NO backdoor payments to Insurance Companies to buy their support. Make everyone INCLUDING CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS, THEIR STAFFERS AND HIS OWN FAMILY sign up. NO excuses just stand back and let it come into full effect?

If he is not going to allow the LAW OF THE LAND to come into effect as written and without HIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL REWRITES, then stop calling it the friggin LAW OF THE LAND every time Republicans suggest an improvement to it. :mad:
 
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