Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Clark Morris]

On 3 Nov 2013 13:01:35 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:

>In
><833950007-1383144348-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-2146530692-@b25.c4.bise6.blackberry>,
>on 10/30/2013
>   at 02:45 PM, Mike Liberatore  said:
>
>>The thing find interesting is if the Affordable Care Act is so good
>>then why was congress who passed the law were exempted ?
>
>Before asking why ask whether.
> 
As I understand the discussion in the Wall Street Journal, Congress
and its staff were supposed to be moved to the exchanges but the Obama
Administration has come up with a waiver. This whole thing is a moving
target with plenty of room for people of all political stripes to cast
rocks at opposition and keep everybody thoroughly confused.

Clark Morris 

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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)]

In
<833950007-1383144348-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-2146530692-@b25.c4.bise6.blackberry>,
on 10/30/2013
   at 02:45 PM, Mike Liberatore  said:

>The thing find interesting is if the Affordable Care Act is so good
>then why was congress who passed the law were exempted ?

Before asking why ask whether.
 
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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Darth Keller]

Isn't it time to drop this highly politicized topic & get back to work? 
Please remember this is an international list.   Even as a US citizen 
affected by this topic, I sick & tired of it being discussed on this 
forum!
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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Scott Ford]

Doug,
I don't how much your insurance is but I can tell you in NJ, it ain't cheap 
over $1000 a mth for 3 ppl

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> On Oct 30, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Doug Fuerst  wrote:
> 
> How is that? That:
> 
> "Certainly no one that has a job relevant to IBM-MAIN needs to use it."
> 
> Many of us are independent contractors, or have our own companies, and our 
> plans are being cancelled by the insurance companies or are significantly 
> increasing in price. I have nightmares over this, and now instead of being 
> able to move and get my own plan, my wife is going to have to keep working 
> for insurance, and I am stuck in the geographical location I am in. That's 
> pretty relevant to me.
> 
> Doug
> 
>> On 10/30/2013 1:00 PM, Roberts, John J wrote:
>> Many of you may be unaware that you don't necessarily need to use this site 
>> in order to apply for individual health insurance.  Certainly no one that 
>> has a job relevant to IBM-MAIN needs to use it.
>> 
>> You only need to use HealthCare.gov if:
>> A) You think you qualify for a subsidy (income less than 400% of FPL) and 
>> your state does not have its own exchange, or
>> B) Your income is so low that you qualify for free Medicaid and your state 
>> does not have its own exchange.
>> 
>> If you are like me and don't qualify for Medicaid or a Subsidy, you have 
>> these options:
>> C) Use your state's own exchange to apply, if your state has one (most Blue 
>> States have done this), or
>> D) Go to your state's Insurance Commissioner Web Site and research what 
>> plans are offered and what prices apply to your age, location, gender, and 
>> tobacco status.  Then contact the Insurance Company of your choice directly 
>> to apply.
>> 
>> Note that many insurance companies offer both exchange and non-exchange 
>> plans.  A non-exchange plan still needs to meet all the requirements of the 
>> ACA "Metal" plans: Bronze-Silver-Gold.  But a non-exchange plan is not 
>> eligible for a subsidy.  Since the Insurance Company does not need to bother 
>> with all the red-tape for the government subsidy, non-exchange plans are 
>> often cheaper than exchange plans.
>> 
>> If you purchase a non-exchange "Metal" plan, you meet the requirements of 
>> ACA and are not subject to the Individual Mandate Penalty.
>> 
>> Also, if you are on Medicare you are already covered and can ignore 
>> HealthCare.gov and its issues.
>> 
>> John
>> 
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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Scott Ford]

Well, I contracted for 20+ yrs and all I know if you didn't produce, you were 
out. Then again the Eastcoast is a tad more faster paced and intense than other 
parts of the country. Greed drives a lot of business and not good solid 
planning.

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> On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:57 AM, "Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]" 
>  wrote:
> 
> I've read that the Obamacare software contains 500 million lines of code, how 
> can that be?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Steve Comstock [mailto:st...@trainersfriend.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:47 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems
> 
>> On 10/30/2013 9:44 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
>> Bill,
>> 
>> The value of 55! is known and tabulated.  It is
>> 
>> 55!  =  1269640335365827592596510084756651695958032105144943676227584000
>>  00
>> 
>> and 1.26964 x 10^73 is indeed larger than the putative number of 
>> hadrons in the universe.
>> 
>> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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> So, yes, it will take a while to load that many javascript files.
> 
> :-)
> 
> -Steve Comstock
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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Staller, Allan]

AGREED! (in spades)


From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Shane Ginnane
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:26 AM
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Subject: Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:04:09 +0800, David Crayford wrote:

...
>And then compare it to www.ibm.com

Now  that's just cruel - IBM continually demonstrate their inability to 
maintain websites.


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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Shane Ginnane]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:04:09 +0800, David Crayford wrote:

...
>And then compare it to www.ibm.com

Now  that's just cruel - IBM continually demonstrate their inability to 
maintain websites.

Shane ...

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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[David Crayford]

On 30/10/2013 10:11 PM, Jim Marshall wrote:

There is a NetworkWorld story which is worth a read revealing some of the 
problems.  Much thanks to Compuware using some of its Application Performance 
Monitoring tools to uncover certain things.   It is worth it to click on the 
gentleman's Blog for more detail.   Of course this is only the Internet facing 
portion and even if fixed for added speed, never know if the back-end 
processing will do as advertised.

NETWORKWORLD ARTICLE: “Why is the Obamacare Healthcare.gov website so sick?”

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/102313-healthcare-gov-275167.html

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Hyperbole!

It's not that bad! Check out the PageSpeed results 
http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=healthcare.gov.
And then compare it to www.ibm.com 
http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=ibm.com


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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Thomas Kern]

I am a "scum-of-the-earth" contractor to the Federal government and my 
health insurance is technically cancelled every year because the company 
I work for renegotiates for higher prices and less coverage every year.


That is how it has been for the 37 1/2 years I have been doing this. It 
doesn't matter if the all-holy Republicans or the satanic Democrats are 
in charge.


/Tom Kern


On 10/30/2013 13:07, Doug Fuerst wrote:

How is that? That:

"Certainly no one that has a job relevant to IBM-MAIN needs to use it."

Many of us are independent contractors, or have our own companies, and 
our plans are being cancelled by the insurance companies or are 
significantly increasing in price. I have nightmares over this, and 
now instead of being able to move and get my own plan, my wife is 
going to have to keep working for insurance, and I am stuck in the 
geographical location I am in. That's pretty relevant to me.


Doug



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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Paul Peplinski]

<< 1.  The contractors decided that one and two-thirds lines of code were 
necessary for each person in the USA. >>

Easy enough :)

EVALUATE TRUE
WHEN SSN = '1' 
 WORK-SSN = '1' 
...
 

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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[efinnell15]

Acoustic coupler and no module greater then 64k? Yee-hah



In a message dated 10/30/13 11:55:39 Central Daylight Time, jcew...@acm.org 
writes:
with designing a high-volume web site should 
be required to test using a 56 Kbs network interface so they would be 
forced to give greater consideration to web-page display efficiency 
early in the game! 

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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

anthony.sambat...@nih.gov (Sambataro, Anthony  [E] , NIH/NBS) writes:
> I've read that the Obamacare software contains 500 million lines of
> code, how can that be?

I thought more like 5m LOC ... but may come to reach $400M-$500M (but
that includes everything not just writing code, but also full roll-out
and operation) ... but would be like $100/LOC (if operations included).

common metric of less than 100LOC/person/day, 500M LOCS is more than
5million worker days or well over 20,000 worker years.

for comparison ... a recent IBM problem

Pennsylvania Kills An IBM Contract That's 3 Years Late And $60 Million
Over Budget
http://www.businessinsider.com/pennsylvania-kills-ibm-project-2013-8

from above:

It said the computer system built so far was unreliable and full of bugs
(had "a higher number of software defects than industry norms.")

Plus, it blamed IBM's revolving-door workforce. The initial project
manager and the top executive left in 2009 and IBM preceded to have 638
people work on the system, rotating most of them off in less than a
year.

... and ... 

A year ago, laid-off IBM employees told us that the company's ongoing
layoffs are creating a lot of churn in large projects like these and
hurting the company. They named a handful of cases where other big
clients pulled the plug on IBM contracts.

... snip ... 

referenced article:
http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-laid-off-employee-says-company-is-blowing-it-2012-4

including Disney @ $100m/annum, Texas @ $863m, and Indiana 10yr, $1B 

and comparison with other large program (with large millions of LOC)

What If Obamacare Was A Fighter Jet?
http://my.firedoglake.com/jpsottile/2013/10/24/what-if-obamacare-was-a-fighter-jet/

will eventually be nearly two decades ... the article does raise issue
about long-term, broken procurement process throughout the federal gov
(however, especially epidemic in DOD where they keep putting off date
when DOD has to comply with mandatory financial audit).

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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Doug Fuerst]

How is that? That:

"Certainly no one that has a job relevant to IBM-MAIN needs to use it."

Many of us are independent contractors, or have our own companies, and our 
plans are being cancelled by the insurance companies or are significantly 
increasing in price. I have nightmares over this, and now instead of being able 
to move and get my own plan, my wife is going to have to keep working for 
insurance, and I am stuck in the geographical location I am in. That's pretty 
relevant to me.

Doug

On 10/30/2013 1:00 PM, Roberts, John J wrote:

Many of you may be unaware that you don't necessarily need to use this site in 
order to apply for individual health insurance.  Certainly no one that has a 
job relevant to IBM-MAIN needs to use it.

You only need to use HealthCare.gov if:
A) You think you qualify for a subsidy (income less than 400% of FPL) and your 
state does not have its own exchange, or
B) Your income is so low that you qualify for free Medicaid and your state does 
not have its own exchange.

If you are like me and don't qualify for Medicaid or a Subsidy, you have these 
options:
C) Use your state's own exchange to apply, if your state has one (most Blue 
States have done this), or
D) Go to your state's Insurance Commissioner Web Site and research what plans 
are offered and what prices apply to your age, location, gender, and tobacco 
status.  Then contact the Insurance Company of your choice directly to apply.

Note that many insurance companies offer both exchange and non-exchange plans.  A 
non-exchange plan still needs to meet all the requirements of the ACA "Metal" 
plans: Bronze-Silver-Gold.  But a non-exchange plan is not eligible for a subsidy.  Since 
the Insurance Company does not need to bother with all the red-tape for the government 
subsidy, non-exchange plans are often cheaper than exchange plans.

If you purchase a non-exchange "Metal" plan, you meet the requirements of ACA 
and are not subject to the Individual Mandate Penalty.

Also, if you are on Medicare you are already covered and can ignore 
HealthCare.gov and its issues.

John


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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[DASDBILL2]

Before any health care issues are processed, all personal information and data 
are first copied to the NSA, the FBI, the CIA, Naval Intelligence, Defense 
Communications Agency, DEA, BATFE, etc., except that such information is not 
really copied to those agencies if anybody asks about it later. 
Next, backup copies of all transactions and information are kept in Cloud Nine, 
whose principal server is on the Moon.  Every transmission to or from the moon 
requires about 2 seconds extra time due to the distance. 
  
In order to prevent a user from attempting to create a duplicate account, every 
hadron in the universe is first checked for redundant use. [see John Gilmore's 
previous post about 55! and the number of hadrons in the universe] 
  
All programs, templates, scripts, etc., that are loaded are fetched from Cloud 
Nine (on the Moon).  This accounts for most of the loading time (except that 
55! + 11! programs must be loaded). 
  
The part of the processing that deals with health care and/or insurance issues 
has not yet been coded.  Only the 4 previous paragraphs have been implemented 
so far with real code. 
  
All processing takes place on platforms running HSA (Hosed System 
Architecture). [1] 
  
Bill Fairchild 
Franklin, TN 
  
[1] See the SHARE proceedings of August, 1991 in Chicago for the session in 
which HSA was first pre-post-announced. 

- Original Message -

From: "Doug Fuerst"  
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:33:29 AM 
Subject: Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems 

Anyone who sends any personal information to this site is crazy. 

On 10/30/2013 12:06 PM, DASDBILL2 wrote: 
> Possible answers: 
> 1.  The contractors decided that one and two-thirds lines of code were 
> necessary for each person in the USA. 
>     
> 2.  When it is finally working, we can read it and then know what it says. 
> [paraphrasing Nancy Pelosi's comment that we should first pass the 
> legislation and then we would know what was in it] 
>     
> 3.  The contractors were paid by the line of code they produced rather than 
> the length of time it took to write the code, and most of the lines of code 
> that were counted are comments. 
>     
> 4.  They had to redo the first 250 million lines of code because the dog ate 
> it. 
>     
> Bill Fairchild 
> Franklin, TN 
> 
> - Original Message - 
> 
> snip>>>>>>>>> 

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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Roberts, John J]

Many of you may be unaware that you don't necessarily need to use this site in 
order to apply for individual health insurance.  Certainly no one that has a 
job relevant to IBM-MAIN needs to use it.

You only need to use HealthCare.gov if:
A) You think you qualify for a subsidy (income less than 400% of FPL) and your 
state does not have its own exchange, or
B) Your income is so low that you qualify for free Medicaid and your state does 
not have its own exchange.

If you are like me and don't qualify for Medicaid or a Subsidy, you have these 
options:
C) Use your state's own exchange to apply, if your state has one (most Blue 
States have done this), or
D) Go to your state's Insurance Commissioner Web Site and research what plans 
are offered and what prices apply to your age, location, gender, and tobacco 
status.  Then contact the Insurance Company of your choice directly to apply.

Note that many insurance companies offer both exchange and non-exchange plans.  
A non-exchange plan still needs to meet all the requirements of the ACA "Metal" 
plans: Bronze-Silver-Gold.  But a non-exchange plan is not eligible for a 
subsidy.  Since the Insurance Company does not need to bother with all the 
red-tape for the government subsidy, non-exchange plans are often cheaper than 
exchange plans.

If you purchase a non-exchange "Metal" plan, you meet the requirements of ACA 
and are not subject to the Individual Mandate Penalty.

Also, if you are on Medicare you are already covered and can ignore 
HealthCare.gov and its issues.

John


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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Joel C. Ewing]

Since some of the load times quoted are not also astronomical, it would
appear this is merely ignorant punctuation excess on the part of the
writer intended to convey "OMG!", and which should have been eliminated
by a competent editor with an ounce of understanding of mathematical
notation.

Using "55+11" downloads when "2" might suffice seems quite bad enough
for a site that should reasonably have been expected to have an an
extremely high volume of traffic; but then, there are a plethora of
over-designed web sites on the Internet these days that require entirely
too many interactions and too much data to display a typical page.
Others manage to get away with inefficiency only because their site
usage is much lower.

Makes me think folks tasked with designing a high-volume web site should
be required to test using a 56 Kbs network interface so they would be
forced to give greater consideration to web-page display efficiency
early in the game!
  Joel C. Ewing

On 10/30/2013 10:23 AM, DASDBILL2 wrote:
> Thanks for the link, Jim.  I am reading through the article now.  The first 
> seriously GLARING problem I see is that "It seems they forgot to merge CSS 
> and JS files together as they are currently loading about 55! Individual 
> JavaScripts files and 11! Individual CSS files!" 
> I don't know the exact value of 55! (55 factorial), but I bet it is larger 
> than the entire universe.  And 11! is bad enough.  That's a seriously large 
> number of files to load for every transaction of the registration page. 
>   
> This one quote from Compuware's expert, or perhaps from Networkworld's 
> editors and/or proofreaders, is a good reason to suspect that no one, and not 
> just the government, knows what he is doing or talking about regarding this 
> website. 
>   
> Bill Fairchild 
> Franklin, TN 
> 
> - Original Message -
> 
> From: "Jim Marshall"  
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:11:36 AM 
> Subject: ObamaCare Web Site Problems 
> 
> There is a NetworkWorld story which is worth a read revealing some of the 
> problems.  Much thanks to Compuware using some of its Application Performance 
> Monitoring tools to uncover certain things.   It is worth it to click on the 
> gentleman's Blog for more detail.   Of course this is only the Internet 
> facing portion and even if fixed for added speed, never know if the back-end 
> processing will do as advertised.   
> 
> NETWORKWORLD ARTICLE: “Why is the Obamacare Healthcare.gov website so sick?” 
> 
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/102313-healthcare-gov-275167.html 
> 


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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Doug Fuerst]

Anyone who sends any personal information to this site is crazy.

On 10/30/2013 12:06 PM, DASDBILL2 wrote:

Possible answers:
1.  The contractors decided that one and two-thirds lines of code were 
necessary for each person in the USA.
   
2.  When it is finally working, we can read it and then know what it says. [paraphrasing Nancy Pelosi's comment that we should first pass the legislation and then we would know what was in it]
   
3.  The contractors were paid by the line of code they produced rather than the length of time it took to write the code, and most of the lines of code that were counted are comments.
   
4.  They had to redo the first 250 million lines of code because the dog ate it.
   
Bill Fairchild

Franklin, TN

- Original Message -

snip>


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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[DASDBILL2]

Possible answers: 
1.  The contractors decided that one and two-thirds lines of code were 
necessary for each person in the USA. 
  
2.  When it is finally working, we can read it and then know what it says. 
[paraphrasing Nancy Pelosi's comment that we should first pass the legislation 
and then we would know what was in it] 
  
3.  The contractors were paid by the line of code they produced rather than the 
length of time it took to write the code, and most of the lines of code that 
were counted are comments. 
  
4.  They had to redo the first 250 million lines of code because the dog ate 
it. 
  
Bill Fairchild 
Franklin, TN 

- Original Message -

From: "Anthony Sambataro (NIH/NBS) [E]"  
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:57:39 AM 
Subject: Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems 

I've read that the Obamacare software contains 500 million lines of code, how 
can that be? 


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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]]

I've read that the Obamacare software contains 500 million lines of code, how 
can that be?

-Original Message-
From: Steve Comstock [mailto:st...@trainersfriend.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:47 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

On 10/30/2013 9:44 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
> Bill,
>
> The value of 55! is known and tabulated.  It is
>
> 55!  =  1269640335365827592596510084756651695958032105144943676227584000
>   00
>
> and 1.26964 x 10^73 is indeed larger than the putative number of 
> hadrons in the universe.
>
> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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So, yes, it will take a while to load that many javascript files.

:-)

-Steve Comstock

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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Steve Comstock]

On 10/30/2013 9:44 AM, John Gilmore wrote:

Bill,

The value of 55! is known and tabulated.  It is

55!  =  1269640335365827592596510084756651695958032105144943676227584000
  00

and 1.26964 x 10^73 is indeed larger than the putative number of
hadrons in the universe.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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So, yes, it will take a while to load that many javascript files.

:-)

-Steve Comstock

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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[John Gilmore]

Bill,

The value of 55! is known and tabulated.  It is

55!  =  1269640335365827592596510084756651695958032105144943676227584000
 00

and 1.26964 x 10^73 is indeed larger than the putative number of
hadrons in the universe.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[DASDBILL2]

Thanks for the link, Jim.  I am reading through the article now.  The first 
seriously GLARING problem I see is that "It seems they forgot to merge CSS and 
JS files together as they are currently loading about 55! Individual 
JavaScripts files and 11! Individual CSS files!" 
I don't know the exact value of 55! (55 factorial), but I bet it is larger than 
the entire universe.  And 11! is bad enough.  That's a seriously large number 
of files to load for every transaction of the registration page. 
  
This one quote from Compuware's expert, or perhaps from Networkworld's editors 
and/or proofreaders, is a good reason to suspect that no one, and not just the 
government, knows what he is doing or talking about regarding this website. 
  
Bill Fairchild 
Franklin, TN 

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There is a NetworkWorld story which is worth a read revealing some of the 
problems.  Much thanks to Compuware using some of its Application Performance 
Monitoring tools to uncover certain things.   It is worth it to click on the 
gentleman's Blog for more detail.   Of course this is only the Internet facing 
portion and even if fixed for added speed, never know if the back-end 
processing will do as advertised.   

NETWORKWORLD ARTICLE: “Why is the Obamacare Healthcare.gov website so sick?” 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/102313-healthcare-gov-275167.html 

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Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Mike Liberatore]

The thing find interesting is if the Affordable Care Act is so good then why 
was congress who passed the law were exempted ?
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There is a NetworkWorld story which is worth a read revealing some of the 
problems.  Much thanks to Compuware using some of its Application Performance 
Monitoring tools to uncover certain things.   It is worth it to click on the 
gentleman's Blog for more detail.   Of course this is only the Internet facing 
portion and even if fixed for added speed, never know if the back-end 
processing will do as advertised.  

NETWORKWORLD ARTICLE: “Why is the Obamacare Healthcare.gov website so sick?”

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/102313-healthcare-gov-275167.html

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ObamaCare Web Site Problems

[Jim Marshall]

There is a NetworkWorld story which is worth a read revealing some of the 
problems.  Much thanks to Compuware using some of its Application Performance 
Monitoring tools to uncover certain things.   It is worth it to click on the 
gentleman's Blog for more detail.   Of course this is only the Internet facing 
portion and even if fixed for added speed, never know if the back-end 
processing will do as advertised.  

NETWORKWORLD ARTICLE: “Why is the Obamacare Healthcare.gov website so sick?”

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/102313-healthcare-gov-275167.html

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