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Newly “fixed” Obamacare website still cannot handle 50,000 users at the same time

December 2, 2013

 When the Obamacare website was relaunched after its abysmal roll out we were promised that the website could now handle 50,000 users at the same time. That is a very low number, especially when you consider Obamacare has cost millions of people their healthcare coverage and will be looking to use the website, but is gives us a great perspective on how flawed the website was to begin with if 50,000 users is considered a success. But even if this is the measuring stick of success the website failed once again.

  It is being reported here that the website began queuing people when there was slightly over 30,000 users on the site.

Around 10 a.m. Monday morning, the Obama administration began using queuing software to meter entry into the HealthCare.gov Web site. At the time, the site had fewer than 40,000 users, somewhere in the “mid-30,000” range, as Medicare spokeswoman Julie Bataille put it.

“As we looked at error rates, that was the team’s determination,” Bataille said.

Most notably, the queuing system went up before HealthCare.gov hit its planned target of handling 50,000 concurrent users. 

  When pressed on this issue the Obama regime did what it does best, it changed the measuring stick. (Much as the did with the stimulus when they started counting “jobs saved” as well as jobs created.)

When pressed on this point, Bataille referred to a separate metric that the administration has used to measure success: that 800,000 people be able to use the Web site in a single day.

“The idea is that we said the site would be able to handle 800,000 in the course of a day,” 

  If you are one of the millions of Americans who have lost your healthcare coverage and you are planning on using the website to buy insurance have no fear, David Plouffe says Obamacare will be working really well by 2017. That is only three years away, don’t get sick in the meantime and you will be just fine.

12 Comments leave one →
  1. StandAsOneUnited's avatar
    December 2, 2013 7:33 pm

    I hope this breaking news doesn’t come as a surprise, my friend! 🙂

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    • Steve Dennis's avatar
      December 2, 2013 7:56 pm

      No surprise here, but I wonder how many people believed Obama when he said all the problems would be solved by now.

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  2. Brittius's avatar
    December 2, 2013 7:54 pm

    Reblogged this on Brittius.com.

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  3. Ron Russell's avatar
    December 2, 2013 8:21 pm

    If the front end of the website is not up to snuff, just think what the back end is like. The Obama team (such as it is) has been concentrating all their efforts on repairing the sign on part of the sight, because that is the most visable. But when it comes to the real nuts and bolts (getting the information to the insurance companies and protecting all the very private information that must be gathered) I suspect its a fricking mess. Nothing will hide all these failures from the public as much as the spinners in the White House try.

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    • Steve Dennis's avatar
      December 2, 2013 8:50 pm

      It is a mess, there is still no mechanism in place for people to pay for their healthcare insurance once they have signed up for Obamacare. If they cannot pay for their insurance they will not be covered.

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  4. Conservatives on Fire's avatar
    December 2, 2013 9:01 pm

    Anybody that gets sick and hasn’t been able to get “Obamacare” should send the bill to 1600 Pennsyvania Ave, Washington, D.C.

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    • Steve Dennis's avatar
      December 2, 2013 9:10 pm

      I think he would be more than willing to foot the bill, after all he did say he was a middle class warrior. What better way to prove it?

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  5. Bruce's avatar
    Bruce permalink
    December 2, 2013 10:32 pm

    “The beatings will continue until moral improves”

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