>It's a good thing all other web sites work perfectly from the get-go,
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>Don't give me that. No website works perfectly. But this one is badly architected. It's not just the front-end piece.
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>Right now there are insurers spending far too much time trying to piece together information from applications. Anyone who has been around the block enough times can sense what that's likely a sign of.
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>They had to do a reset of passwords in the first week. What's that a sign of?
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>They even admitted the initial design was for 50,000 visitors per day. What's that a sign of?
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>There are multiple and consistent reports that no serious integration testing occurred until about a week before launch. And there are anonymous sources from the administration who have told Forbes, NYT, and WSJ that there was talk going back to March from some of the systems people that this thing was far behind schedule and needed to be pushed back. But that would have spelled doom for Barack Obama.
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>I'm going to tell you a little story....a story about how politics always wins out over technology decisions. I actually know some folks who have pretty deep NASA information about the infamous Space Shuttle Challenger. There's a story about some engineers who tried to convince higher-ups that the mission was not ready - and received a harsh reaction that went something like this: "I don't want a technical reason why we can't launch - I want a political reason. Don't give me technical mumbo-jumbo.". Seven people bought the fu__ing farm. That's what our government does to people.

This discussion needs a humor break and The Onion comes to the rescue --

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-improved-obamacare-program-released-on-35-flop,34294/