Obamacare’s web site is really bad

> The good news for Obamacare is that lots of people want to sign up. Lots and lots of people. Many more, in fact, than anyone expected. The bad news is that the Obama administration's online insurance marketplace -- which serves 34 states -- can't handle the success.

I see it as any big new service out there. In the beginning there is going to be a spike in user interest. I'm guessing a large number of people using the site right now are doing it just out of interest (due to news reports about it). People browsing the site may have no intentions of actually paying for healthcare through the system, they just want to poke around and see what it has to offer.

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Post by corresation » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 8:36 PM UTC

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http://aws.amazon.com/federal/

EDIT: Parent post had posited that the government couldn't just spool up AWS servers like the rest of us, so I provided that link just because they technically could (not saying that it would have been a good choice for something of this scale or purpose)

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 8:38 PM UTC

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http://aws.amazon.com/federal/ EDIT: Parent post had posited that the government couldn't just spool up AWS servers like the rest of us, so I provided that link just because they technically could (not saying that it would have been a good choice for something of this scale or purpose)

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Post by ajross » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 8:38 PM UTC

Having used a handful of insurance (health and otherwise) industry sites over the years, all I can say is that while all this criticism is no doubt valid, the bar is a lot lower than people might expect.

Medicare was successfully delivering care decades before the web was even invented and we all somehow survived.

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Post by mgkimsal » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 8:39 PM UTC

kyrra wrote: post #4

> The good news for Obamacare is that lots of people want to sign up. Lots and lots of people. Many more, in fact, than anyone expected. The bad news is that the Obama administration's online insurance marketplace -- which serves 34 states -- can't handle the success. I see it as any big new service out there. In the beginning there is going to be a spike in user interest. I'm guessing a large number of people using…

There are millions of people legally required to get insurance now, and this is the place to get the information needed. People who already have health insurance provided shouldn't need to be poking around yet, and let the rest of us who have to deal with this at least get on the system.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

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corresation wrote: post #5

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http://aws.amazon.com/federal/ EDIT: Parent post had posited that the government couldn't just spool up AWS servers like the rest of us, so I provided that link just because they technically could (not saying that it would have been a good choice for something of this scale or purpose)

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 8:42 PM UTC

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corresation wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://aws.amazon.com/federal/ EDIT: Parent post had posited that the government couldn't just spool up AWS servers like the rest of us, so I provided that link just because they technically could (not saying that it would have been a good choice for something of this scale or purpose)

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