Obama adviser: Demand overwhelmed HealthCare.gov

[PoliticAverse]

The government website launched this week to sell health insurance was overwhelmed by up to five times as many users as it was designed to handle, President Obama's top technology adviser said Saturday in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY.

U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said the government expected HealthCare.gov to draw 50,000 to 60,000 simultaneous users, but instead it has drawn as many as 250,000 at a time since it launched Oct. 1.

Park's comments are the administration's most detailed explanation for the glitches that have frustrated millions of consumers who have tried to enter the site or complete applications for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

"These bugs were functions of volume,'' Park said. "Take away the volume and it works.''

Read the rest at: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/05/health-care-website-repairs/2927597/

[Travis_0004]

1. I don't get why we still have problems almost a week later.

I can understand not being ready for the traffic, but I find it tough to believe the US government doesn't have a server capable of handling the traffic. They should have been able to get it on a faster server, within 24 hours. The website has improved, but I still haven't been able to get an account setup yet.