More Obamacare fuckups

[Archigeek]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHCVyllnck

[Warriorbird]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHCVyllnck

Ha ha ha. Yes.

[Tgo01]

AP sources: 476,000 Obamacare applications filed

WASHINGTON (AP) — Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President Barack Obama's signature legislation.

However, the officials continue to refuse to say how many people have actually enrolled in the insurance markets. Without enrollment figures, it's unclear whether the program is on track to reach the 7 million people projecting by the Congressional Budget Office to gain coverage during the six-month sign-up period.

Obama's advisers say the president has been frustrated by the flawed rollout. During one of his daily health care briefings last week, he told advisers assembled in the Oval Office that the administration had to own up to the fact that there were no excuses for not having the website ready to operate as promised.

The president is expected to address the problems on Monday during a health care event at the White House. Cabinet members and other top administration officials will also be traveling around the country in the coming weeks to encourage sign-ups in areas with the highest population of uninsured people.

The first three weeks of sign-ups have been marred by a cascade of computer problems, which the administration says it is working around the clock to correct. The rough rollout has been a glaring embarrassment for Obama, who invested significant time and political capital in getting the law passed during his first term.

The officials said technology experts from inside and outside the government are set to work on the glitches, though they did not say how many workers were being added.

Officials did say staffing has been increased at call centers by about 50 percent. As problems persist on the federally run website, the administration is encouraging more people to sign up for insurance over the phone.

The officials did not want to be cited by name and would not discuss the health insurance rollout unless they were granted anonymity.

Despite the widespread problems, the Obama administration has yet to fully explain what went wrong with the online system consumers were supposed to use to sign up for coverage.

Initially, administration officials blamed a high volume of interest for the frozen screens that many people encountered. Since then, the administration has also acknowledged unspecified problems with software and some elements of the system's design.

Interest in the insurance markets appears to continue to be high. Officials said about 19 million people had visited HealthCare.gov as of Friday night.

People seeking insurance must fill out applications before selecting specific plans. The applications include personal information, including income figures that are used to calculate any subsidies the applicant may qualify for.

More than one person can be included on an application.

Of the 476,000 applications that have been started, just over half have been from the 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead in running the markets. The rest of the applications have come from the 14 states running their own markets, along with Washington, D.C.

The White House says it plans to release the first enrollment totals from both the federal and state-run markets in mid-November.

An internal memo obtained by The Associated Press showed that the administration projected nearly a half-million people would enroll for the insurance markets during the first month.

Officials say they expect enrollments to be heavier toward the end of the six-month sign-up window.

In an ironic twist, the problems with the rollout were overshadowed by Republican efforts to get changes to the health care law in exchange for funding the government. That effort failed and the government reopened last week with the health care law intact.

Stung by that defeat, some Republicans are now calling for the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The White House says it has complete confidence in her.

House Republicans have scheduled a hearing next week to look into the rollout problems. White House allies say they're confident the problems are being addressed.

"There's no question the marketplace website needs some improvement," said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., one of the architects of the law. "The administration needs to fix the computer bugs and I'm confident that they're working around the clock to fix the problems."

I accept your apology, WB.

[cwolff]

(RED)Thread: More Obamacare fuckups
And this is what happens when you get all your information from dnc.com and comedycentral/dailyshow.com Uninformed voters are the scourge of the country. Moron.

Dear Moron,

While I disagree with your assessment I do appreciate that you signed your neg rep and look forward to hearing more of your wisdom in the future.

Sincerely,
Cwolff

[Parkbandit]

The Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday it was bringing in outside help to resolve some of the technical woes that have beset the federally run insurance exchanges, which the agency acknowledged “has not lived up to the expectations of the American people.”
“We are committed to doing better,” agency officials said in a blog post that also said that “our team is bringing in some of the best and brightest from both inside and outside government to scrub in with the team and help improve healthcare.gov.”
Spokespeople for the agency didn’t immediately respond to questions seeking more information about the development, which it is billing as a “tech surge.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/1...LEFTTopStories

Also.. weird Sebelius doesn't want to testify this week about all the fuckups the rollout is experiencing. So much transparency......

[Methais]

I forgot where I read it, and I'm too lazy to go find it, but apparently the IT company that they hired to make the Obamacare site was previously fired by the Canadian government for being a bunch of stupid and incompetent boobs that couldn't get their shit together or do anything worth a fuck.

I also read some other article that explained some of the supposed technical workings of why the site is a big clusterfuck. Basically it's so sloppily coded that clicking almost anything requests like 472890427304328 files and loads up 482739047230947230 plugins to the point where it's almost like the server is launching a DDOS attack on itself.

Basically this:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...overnment+work

[Latrinsorm]

Please excuse the long post, mostly I blame society (and Thondalar).

Nah, I totally read his post. The statement you made, which I responded to, would be akin to Thondalar: "man, the Tigers are gonna clean house against them sucka Sox" Latrin: "The game of baseball is played with a baseball."

Did your comment have relevance? In the universal sense, in as far as anything has relevance....yes. Did it have any bearing on the conversation? Not one bit.

I challenged an axiom of crb's. I don't see what could be more relevant than that.

This one statement brings so many questions. Define: "most", "agreements/assignments", "egoism", "unenlightened", "productive", "society", "strategy"

Since you ask, and in this context:
-reasonably more than half.
-those communications a reasonable person would interpret as expectations of completion (where the slash indicates peers or subordinates respectively).
-that philosophy where the greatest good is what is good for the actor.
-that form of egoism that considers relatively immediate impacts. For example: eating candy is tastier than eating granola, therefore the unenlightened egoist will eat candy.
-resulting in gains.
-strictly speaking I said "societal", but I'll let that slide: the collection of individuals that impact each other.
-a plan of action.

It's my brother not my friend.

I just got serious flashbacks to that one cartoon whose conceit was a play on words between Nessie (the Loch Ness Monster) and -ness (the suffix involved with the words happi-ness, friendli-ness, etc.) and its first season finale, and I am disgusted that no one else was willing to admit the same in 17 whole pages following this post. Also I am disgusted by the fact the google returns only Twilight fanfiction for relevant queries. But I found it anyway... although that doesn't sound anything like what I remember. Could there be two such shows? Thanks a lot, Reagan!

Why do people make the claim that Obama is really a Republican which is why Republicans hate him?

Why do Democrats love Obama if he's such a Republican? You guys can't have it both ways.

The far left frequently criticizes Obama, therefore the Democrats that post here are mostly moderates.

I would love it if there were 3 solid political parties ... if one happens to get the majority, then kudos ... otherwise, two parties will have to compromise and work together as a majority coalition That would be amazing to observe in Congress.

This is a lovely ideal that does not work in practice. Ask any Canadian about how efficient coalition governments are. (The answer is: not at all.)

You'll find most politicians are a mixed bag like that because most politicians are beholden to a variety of special interests that aren't necessarily congruent interests. Rarely do you find a politician that is purely idealistic and who sticks to those ideals.

Shouldn't you also investigate whether non-politicians are a mixed bag before Jumping to Conclusions © about why politicians are? For instance, when I take those tests online I am frequently told I am a moderate, even though I can't think of a single moderate position I hold. Am I beholden to lobbyists? Or are people simply not ideological? What if the truth is that we invented ideologies, that they did not invent us? We are no more controlled by them than the economics we also invented, and our apparent "failure" to act as they demand is a failure not of courage or intelligence but of the model.

comedycentral/dailyshow.com

That's uh... that's not how urls work.

[Jarvan]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...e6c_story.html

I am not sure there are enough "experts" in the world to fix this mess.

[Atlanteax]

Basically it's so sloppily coded

Too bad this seems to be the norm for the programming industry as a whole ... us Gamers are well aware of it.

The gravity of it, when it comes to Obamacare, can be put into perspective with the postulation that the anguish that we felt with poorly coded games will pale in comparison to the monstrosity that the online Obamacare exchange is.

[Atlanteax]

Breaking News: Users of Obamacare exchange complain that Obamacare is not affordable!!

http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/21/news...html?hpt=hp_t2

Top 4 Obamacare complaints
Complaint #1: I can't log in
Complaint #2: My info's not right
Complaint #3: The costs are too high
Complaint #4: My employer is raising my premiums because of Obamacare

Obamacare is not affordable ... incoming mea culpa from both Back and WB.