Obamacare Website Fixes Could Take Two Weeks Or Two Months

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like nobody is quite sure how long it will take to fix the health insurance marketplace website. '"One person familiar with the system's development said that the project was now roughly 70 percent of the way toward operating properly, but that predictions varied on when the remaining 30 percent would be done," the Times reported yesterday. "'I've heard as little as two weeks or as much as a couple of months,' that person said. Others warned that the fixes themselves were creating new problems, and said that the full extent of the problems might not be known because so many consumers had been stymied at the first step in the application process."'"

Comments

This is going to make the 90% rule interesting

[garyebickford]

"The first 90% of the work takes the first 90% of the time; the last 10% of the work takes the second 90% of the time".

Re:you really want to know what obamacare is?

[MightyMartian]

For some reason people want health care that won't bankrupt them. They look at what citizens of other industrialized nations get and want the same.

Re:If the state of the website is any indication .

[Goody]

Get used to it. Those of us who have been carrying health insurance for years have been required to pay for you dumb fucks who don't carry health insurance because you "never get sick" and now just got cancer or ran your car into a tree.

Re:Still faster / easier to apply than it used to

[MachineShedFred]

Why should people have to volunteer to fix something that we (taxpayers) paid a 9-digit sum of money to generate to begin with?

I'm pretty sure that somewhere in that contract, there was some language that said the end product needed to actually function. It's not on us to fix it - it's on the Government to hold the contractor accountable, or tear them apart piece by piece for breach of contract.