• Obamacare Website to go offline Overnight Daily for repairs
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[url]http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/03/21298321-obamacare-website-to-go-offline-overnight-daily-for-repairs?lite[/url] [QUOTE]The application page of the Obamacare website — stricken with glitches for weeks — will go offline daily while a technology team works to resolve problems, the government said Sunday. The Health and Human Services Department said that the application page of HealthCare.gov will go offline from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. daily. During those times, people will not be able to apply or enroll through the website. “Additional down times may be possible as we work to make things better. The rest of the site and the Marketplace call center remain available during these hours," HHS said in a message on its home page. People still can apply for coverage through the health marketplace call center — 1-800-318-2596. That's available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. HealthCare.gov locked up the day it went live on Oct. 1 and has had glitches ever since, fueling criticism of the Obama's health care insurance program in Congress and elsewhere. President Barack Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have apologized for the website’s failures.[/QUOTE] At least they gave google techs on the job now.
What's actually the problem here? At the start I assumed they just needed more servers etc and it would be fixed in like a week tops. How did they fuck it up this bad?
[QUOTE=smurfy;42750255]What's actually the problem here? At the start I assumed they just needed more servers etc and it would be fixed in like a week tops. How did they fuck it up this bad?[/QUOTE] Probably didn't realize that 100 - 150 million people using a service causes it to implode repeatedly.
its pathetic the government cant properly make a website for something as big a deal as obamacare
[QUOTE=smurfy;42750255]What's actually the problem here? At the start I assumed they just needed more servers etc and it would be fixed in like a week tops. How did they fuck it up this bad?[/QUOTE] Because the geniuses that the government is run by thought it would be a great idea to have like 37 different companies working on different parts of the same website with no structure or leads to organize the project. They built it cold war style, all of the tasks were compartmentalized like they were building a missile or secret plane or something. Nobody knew what anyone else was doing, resulting in a disaster. Hopefully it continues to fall flat on its face and die, because it's a terrible system designed by idiots that know fuck all about the healthcare industry. It's funny that they say the call centers will remain open, for what reason? Nobody there knows anything about health insurance either, they just bounce you around and around because not a single one of them can give you a straight answer to anything. Watching paint dry is more helpful and entertaining than they are.
If theres one company that could fix the most bloated software on this earth, its google.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;42750582]Because the geniuses that the government is run by thought it would be a great idea to have like 37 different companies working on different parts of the same website with no structure or leads to organize the project. They built it cold war style, all of the tasks were compartmentalized like they were building a missile or secret plane or something. Nobody knew what anyone else was doing, resulting in a disaster. Hopefully it continues to fall flat on its face and die, because it's a terrible system designed by idiots that know fuck all about the healthcare industry. It's funny that they say the call centers will remain open, for what reason? Nobody there knows anything about health insurance either, they just bounce you around and around because not a single one of them can give you a straight answer to anything. Watching paint dry is more helpful and entertaining than they are.[/QUOTE] whoa calm down there i was agreeing with you up until you hoped that it would crash and burn so is this something you enjoy?
According to a few friends I have in the Army Reserves they took over 75% of some sort of Army information / deployment server to host this thing.
[QUOTE=Zally13;42751682]whoa calm down there i was agreeing with you up until you hoped that it would crash and burn so is this something you enjoy?[/QUOTE] He's conservative, so he's automatically in favour of for-profit healthcare.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;42750582] Hopefully it continues to fall flat on its face and die, because it's a terrible system designed by idiots that know fuck all about the healthcare industry. It's funny that they say the call centers will remain open, for what reason? Nobody there knows anything about health insurance either, they just bounce you around and around because not a single one of them can give you a straight answer to anything. Watching paint dry is more helpful and entertaining than they are.[/QUOTE] Bloggidy bloggidy rooh-rah can't let the proles have healthcare no siree grobibdy grim gram i'm right!
[QUOTE=Zally13;42751682]whoa calm down there i was agreeing with you up until you hoped that it would crash and burn so is this something you enjoy?[/QUOTE] He hopes it dies so a better designed thing can take its place, I think. Obamacare is messy at best.
Basically, the government didn't plan ahead because they really didn't have the information to go off of. The only time governments fuck up this bad is when they have a lack of information or are trying to self sabatoge. Good Conspiracy theorist time, [I]what if the Prism servers are actually the Obamacare servers?[/I] Oh right, they're catching on fire.
[QUOTE=Kartoffel;42754123]He hopes it dies so a better designed thing can take its place, I think. Obamacare is messy at best.[/QUOTE] The problem is that if this system fails, people will immediately use that to say that nationalized healthcare will never work, and there goes our chances at an actually beneficial healthcare system that doesn't lead to high infant mortality rates and insane healthcare costs.
I dont get why republicans are trying to make a political point out of it. The problems with the website are not indicative of obamacare itself. Like everything in the government, the contract went to the lowest bidder and they fucked up. There's no political point to be made.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;42752297]He's conservative, so he's automatically in favour of for-profit healthcare.[/QUOTE] As opposed to still for profit forced oligopoly healthcare?
[QUOTE=smurfy;42750255]What's actually the problem here? At the start I assumed they just needed more servers etc and it would be fixed in like a week tops. How did they fuck it up this bad?[/QUOTE] Lack of understanding of the technology in general, why do you think our tech related laws are so out of date?
[quote]HHS officials said last week that tech gurus from Google, Oracle and Red Hat have joined the effort to help the beleaguered website.[/quote] Thank god. We got professionals working on this now.
[QUOTE=Bentham;42754277]The problem is that if this system fails, people will immediately use that to say that nationalized healthcare will never work, and there goes our chances at an actually beneficial healthcare system that doesn't lead to high infant mortality rates and insane healthcare costs.[/QUOTE] I don't understand why nationalized healthcare couldn't work. You just need to do it right. Although I'm speaking personally, Canada's health care works just fine for me.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;42752297]He's conservative, so he's automatically in favour of for-profit healthcare.[/QUOTE] I'd hope so, for-debt healthcare is much less effective at innovation.
[QUOTE=glitchvid;42757135]I'd hope so, for-debt healthcare is much less effective at innovation.[/QUOTE] lmao. "for-debt". Is this the new buzzword right wing pundits are pushing to scare you idiots?
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;42752297]He's conservative, so he's automatically in favour of for-profit healthcare.[/QUOTE] You do realize the opposite applies too right?
[QUOTE=hexpunK;42757986]lmao. "for-debt". Is this the new buzzword right wing pundits are pushing to scare you idiots?[/QUOTE] lmao. "for-profit". Is this the new buzzword left wing pundits are pushing to scare you idiots?
[QUOTE=zakedodead;42754349]As opposed to still for profit forced oligopoly healthcare?[/QUOTE] Yeah I guess we're kinda fucked either way. National healthcare is just too easy and doesn't benefit the medical-industrial complex (it does the opposite, it kills it). Still, I feel the intentions were good, healthcare for everyone. It's the healthcare system we have in place that is shit, and will always be shit, due to the money driven nature of it. [QUOTE=glitchvid;42761568]lmao. "for-profit". Is this the new buzzword left wing pundits are pushing to scare you idiots?[/QUOTE] You do realize that privatization is kind of a right wing concept?
[QUOTE=glitchvid;42761568]lmao. "for-profit". Is this the new buzzword left wing pundits are pushing to scare you idiots?[/QUOTE] Private enterprises are built upon their intention to make a profit; hence "for-profit". Public enterprises aren't built upon their intention to put those using them into debt.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;42750582]They built it cold war style, all of the tasks were compartmentalized like they were building a missile or secret plane or something. Nobody knew what anyone else was doing, resulting in a disaster[/QUOTE] I was under the impression that a lot of programming projects were compartmentalized and had people working on different things, unaware of each others progress and just making dummy data to test their own stuff? That's what we did in my raytracer class at least, and that worked fine.
[QUOTE=glitchvid;42761568]lmao. "for-profit". Is this the new buzzword left wing pundits are pushing to scare you idiots?[/QUOTE] You didn't really think that one through did you?
[QUOTE=Raidyr;42765716]You didn't really think that one through did you?[/QUOTE] None of the "both sidessss suck guys!!" do
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