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Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well
The much-discussed health care finance sign-up website HealthCare.gov has benefited from the flurry of improvements that have been thrown at it in the last several weeks. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid spokesman Aaron Albright told Fox News Saturday that "[w]ith the scheduled upgrades last night and tonight, we're on track to meet our stated goal for the site to work for the vast majority of users." CMM spokeswoman Julie Bataille. "said the installation of new servers Friday night helped improved the response times and error rates, even with heavier-than-usual weekend traffic." If you've used the site this weekend, what has your experience been like?
To test it, they want you to put in all kinds of personal information. No thanks.
In the first release, a significant percentage of people who put in their info, checked out some plans, and then cancelled out of it all were accidentally signed up for Medicaid. Hope that bug got fixed.
But even the government doesn't claim the site is secure yet. Glad I'm not legally required to use it before they get around to they security audit they skipped (also legally required, but laws are for peons).
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Not only does every first world country other than the US have some sort of universal healthcare/single payer system, the US spends more than every other country for healthcare for a lower level of care/poor outcomes.
USA! USA!