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Re: Obamacare’s web site is really bad

#61

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We've all acknowledged that the site isn't working right now. That's not evidence that you could've built a better one, or that it's simple as "querying a database". I think you've lost track of the conversation, and this entire story's been flagged off the front page, so let's leave it at that.

Let's leave it at this "It hasn't had a single minute of downtime". So with the shutdown does your Organizing For America paycheck still clear?

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Re: Obamacare’s web site is really bad

#62
From the article: "Republicans who decided to shut down the government this week rather than relentlessly message against the Affordable Care Act's glitches did the law a great favor."

I thought it was the Senate Democrats voting against the house spending bill that shut the government down?

Re: Obamacare’s web site is really bad

#64

Here's the repo of healthcare.gov is anyone is interested in addressing some of the optimization issues mentioned in the article: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov

The CMS on the front-end (and the repo you mention) is pretty clean and well optimized. As soon as you get into /marketplace, that's when the problems begin from what I can tell.

Re: Obamacare’s web site is really bad

#65

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Also, it's fair for any U.S. citizen to critique the site, since we are paying for it.

Well, even non-U.S. citizens who work in the U.S. on visas pay for the site through their taxes. In fact, they also pay for Social Security and Medicare without generally being eligible to receive either of those benefits.

Many Americans also pay for both of those without being eligible to receive either of those benefits. I count both of those items as additional taxation, in my case.
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