HealthCare.gov will meet deadline for fixes, White House officials say

[Skinner]

Source: Washington Post

Administration officials are preparing to announce Sunday that they have met their Saturday deadline for improving HealthCare.gov, according to government officials, in part by expanding the site’s capacity so that it can handle 50,000 users at once. But they have yet to meet all their internal goals for repairing the federal health-care site, and it will not become clear how many consumers it can accommodate until more people try to use it.

As of Friday night, federal officials and contractors had achieved two goals, according to government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss ongoing operations. They had increased the system’s capacity and reduced errors. On the other hand, the site’s pages do not load as fast as they want, officials said, and they are working to ensure that large numbers of consumers can enter the site.

An official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the federal health insurance exchange, said the site’s true capacity is somewhat murky because workers need to see how it performs under “weekday traffic volumes” when demand is at its peak.

Federal employees and information technology contractors were expected to work through the night Friday to try to reach one of the remaining targets: improving how many people per hour are able to register and log on to the site. An earlier attempt to make the fix failed several days ago.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/healthcaregov-will-meet-deadline-for-fixes-white-house-officials-say/2013/11/29/caf6a236-5792-11e3-835d-e7173847c7cc_story.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. Good. Congrats, Barry. Make em look like the assholes they are.

Prove em wrong. Never give up, never stop believing. We got your back, and you've got this.

[whiteroses]

15. Log In Anyone?

I created an account on Oct. 1 and haven't been able to log in after trying countless times. I called on Nov. 6 and filled out an application over the phone and have yet to receive any information in the mail or email about my account. Has anyone been able to log in to their account yet?

[JaneyVee]

2. Good news! Looks like the Govt CAN create jobs. They should keep it going and

Update all agencies computer infrastructure. A tech jobs program bringing all their systems up to date.

[Iliyah]

3. Whoo Hoo - K & R!

This needs to go viral and word by mouth which I believe is how this information is getting out of the clutches of the (-) groups of Obamacare haters including but not limited to GOP party and corporate media aka Alec/Koch Brothers, et al.

[OKNancy]

4. I bet you anything the RWNJ groups will try to swamp the site

today and tomorrow.

[winstars]

5. Brought this up the other day, got pooh poohed... I wanna be wrong actually...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024098525

[TomCADem]

6. Of Course, MSMWill Refuse To Cover Folks Who Actually Benefit

Instead, the focus will be on website issues, real and imagined, and whether the Iran Nuke deal is a "distraction."

[SoapBox]

8. LOL

Can the President be blamed for the WMD lies too?

[SoapBox]

7. But, but, but...

Will 50,000 Americans at once and/or 300,000 per day be good enough for the impotent MSM?

Of course not! Guess that's just a given.

Bravo to the President for taking control and getting the fixes moving.

p.s...according to an article on CNN.com running down the President as usual, it's 800,000 users per day.

Sounds damn good to me!

[Psephos]

9. Show me the money.

WH doesn't have a lot of credibility right now.

[TomCADem]

10. Says the GOP, The Party of Climate Change Denial, Birthism, and Death Panels

But, hey, the serious people in the Beltway media tells us that President Obama, not Republicans, has the credibility problem, so it must be true.

[Psephos]

12. I believe in less talk, more walk.

I don't expect incompetence to change for the better unless subjected to criticism. And no, one does not get to choose critics and set standards for constructive language when one has fumbled the football on the three yard line with nine seconds on the clock.

[TomCADem]

16. Not Sure What The Reference to Football Has To Do...

...with the fact the federal website has improved, and many DUers have noted that they have been able to enroll, but yeah the Alabama Auburn game was pretty cool to watch.

[Psephos]

19. I can't help you there. n/t

[TomCADem]

20. ...the fumble at the three yard line...

...I assume you were referring to the big game today or was it something else?

[RBInMaine]

13. I think they are missing you in Freepland.

[Psephos]

14. you are close to violating the terms of use on this site

When someone who has a different opinion than I do snipes at me instead of my argument, it shows they're out of ammo.

Perhaps you think it's acceptable that a bungled launch cost a lot of people their confidence in the system and the Democratic Party's ability to act competently on major government initiatives. That price will be paid for a while to come.

I don't. People like me who voice their criticism constructively help the Democratic Party. Enablers like you make politicos think it's okay to waste financial and political capital, as they can count on getting a pass.

Of such is corruption born.

[Arkana]

11. And now for a completely unbiased look, here's Sean Hannity and Charles Krauthammer.

[Cha]

17. Good breaking news.. thanks Skinner!

[Left Coast2020]

18. Just hope someone can throw this back in the face of Sean Hasen't Any.

What a punk he is. And a coward.

[anasv]

21. bizarre

It's bizarre to see that wpost graphic saying RI lags behind, when just the other day a nytimes article had RI with several times more people signed up than the goal.

As far as I know the only problems the RI site has had was that they had to add some servers to increase capacity in the first few days of running.

[ucrdem]

22. It's getting hard to find the cloud in the silver lining

but our plucky media are rising to the challenge:

Of course, that means the site still suffers a disastrous outage rate judged by the standards of major retail Web sites — and that's not counting the time it spends down for scheduled maintenance. We have no idea whether the 200 fixes left on the list are the really important ones, or the really difficult ones. We don't know what percentage of people who begin an application suffer some failure before completion. The administration hasn't released information on the error rate in the eligibility determinations or the transmissions to insurers, so it's impossible to judge whether the site's critical back-end functions are reliable. And there are important pieces of the site, like the payment mechanisms, that have yet to be built.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/02/wonkbook-healthcare-gov-will-work-that-means-obamacare-can-work-too/

[NYC_SKP]

23. Hell to the Yeah they will.

K and R.

Arrrrggghhh.

[hugo_from_TN]

24. They are not even close yet.