>Maybe it'll go offline for a few days or a week like the MS, Amazon and other Cloud services did in the last 18 months so people will know it's being run as a serious competent business.
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>Analogies like those have been used for weeks, and they're bad analogies.
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>Some of these services have already been established as reputable services. (And I hate to burst the bubble, but the jury is still out on one of the major cloud services....time will tell)
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>Same thing with Apple - Barack Obama used the analogy that folks tolerated the glitches with the recent iOS rollout.
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>Of all people, Ezra Klein (generally an AHCA supporter) slammed these analogies from the White House in the Washington Post. No one is forced (by threat of financial penalty) to use those services. With the iPhone, you're talking about something that was working fine, then had a few glitches during iOS7 rollout that were nothing compared to what you're seeing with the AHCA technology rollout. Even the HHS or the Treasury can't (or won't) provide information on # of actual enrollments so far.
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>There is not a single aspect of this rollout that hasn't come across as anything but completely bush-league. You might be interested (though you might not admit online) in some of the technical assessments of the implementation. I'd always wondered when talk would turn to what's under the hood.


Actually, it's quite typical for a government contract that was split between GUI and back-end and the two contractors never talked about what the other was expecting.