We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404

[Karee 4,190]

well karee, it's always beneficial to budget for your dreams. even dreams of ladyboys.

I guess with 12.6 million, a few surprises are inevitable.

[Darnell 8,478]

I dislike CGI Federal, as a company, in general terms.

In specific terms, however, another 'joint project' of theirs, CGI/Stanley, produced the ustraveldocs.com website , and that one is abysmal as well. About 1/3 of all K-1 visa chasers must use it, worldwide. It's major suckage...

[Karee 4,190]

I dislike CGI Federal, as a company, in general terms.

In specific terms, however, another 'joint project' of theirs, CGI/Stanley, produced the ustraveldocs.com website , and that one is abysmal as well. About 1/3 of all K-1 visa chasers must use it, worldwide. It's major suckage...

Are you telling me that the govt. hired someone to build a website, they did a bad job, and the govt. hired them to build another one?

[Darnell 8,478]

Yes, I am !

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No LadyBoys were damaged in the creation of this thread, to the best of my knowledge.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Easier to get coverage.......People cannot even log on and enter their information

and lower cost ??

Do what?

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

So wait. For the first and ONLY time for this site, every single person in the US is trying to access a website at the same time. The website was not designed to deal with this kind of numbers--numbers which it will never again see because in a month's time, the US public will largely have their insurance and will access the site intermittently or not at all.

So basically the site, like virtually every other website on the planet, is not built to deal with an entire country accessing it at once and it's failing to do a job that no other website could do anyway.

But it's all because Obamacare is the devil?

Is that what I'm reading here?

[Karee 4,190]

So wait. For the first and ONLY time for this site, every single person in the US is trying to access a website at the same time.

Put down the pipe.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Put down the pipe.

Okay, maybe it's not every single person, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it still stands. The website will never again have this kind of traffic. A website being built for average traffic instead of extraordinary traffic is not uncommon in the slightest.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Okay, maybe it's not every single person, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it still stands. The website will never again have this kind of traffic. A website being built for average traffic instead of extraordinary traffic is not uncommon in the slightest.

Sounds like poor planning. Maybe they should just have made an app on Facebook.

[Karee 4,190]

Okay, maybe it's not every single person, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it still stands. The website will never again have this kind of traffic. A website being built for average traffic instead of extraordinary traffic is not uncommon in the slightest.

Does it usually cost $634 million to build a website than can handle average traffic? Is $634 million not uncommon?

[Peikko 1,575]

Try going to the other Federal health care website. Ohh wait. There isn't one.

Nice use of "fear-mongering" Talk about soundbites.

You don't have to use a Federal Health Care website, that's just one of many options. The competition does not lie in who is able to provide the most information online is it?

[Karee 4,190]

You don't have to use a Federal Health Care website, that's just one of many options. The competition does not lie in who is able to provide the most information online is it?

Then what's the point of pi$$ing away more than a half a billion dollars?

[Peikko 1,575]

Then what's the point of pi$$ing away more than a half a billion dollars?

That's a separate argument and I don't doubt that as usual the American government has managed to mess up aspects of this, because despite being the best government in the world, it basically sucks because somehow, despite the government being 'of the people' it manages to satisfy mostly the people who lobby not your average Joe. However, the point, such as it was, iis that health care in the US is not single payer and it's not run by the government. Therefore the argument that being unable to access one of the points of access to affordable health care means that affordable health care is a non profit, non competitive business is totally false. It's both for profit and competitive,

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

So wait. For the first and ONLY time for this site, every single person in the US is trying to access a website at the same time. The website was not designed to deal with this kind of numbers--numbers which it will never again see because in a month's time, the US public will largely have their insurance and will access the site intermittently or not at all.

So basically the site, like virtually every other website on the planet, is not built to deal with an entire country accessing it at once and it's failing to do a job that no other website could do anyway.

But it's all because Obamacare is the devil?

Is that what I'm reading here?

every single person in the country accessing at the same time ?

I know what talking point site you pulled that one from

I would break down the absurdity of that for you, but it's been a long day and I think it's obvious

[Karee 4,190]

That's a separate argument and I don't doubt that as usual the American government has managed to mess up aspects of this, because despite being the best government in the world, it basically sucks because somehow, despite the government being 'of the people' it manages to satisfy mostly the people who lobby not your average Joe. However, the point, such as it was, iis that health care in the US is not single payer and it's not run by the government. Therefore the argument that being unable to access one of the points of access to affordable health care means that affordable health care is a non profit, non competitive business is totally false. It's both for profit and competitive,

If it's for profit, why aren't the people making the profit shelling out the $634 million? I guess if they spent that kind of money on a website, they wouldn't be in business very long.