Obamacare website 'glitches' intentional?

[djegators]

Yes, because they didn't want people to find out how much it was going to cost them.



A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government,
have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare's
federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing. Healthcare.gov
forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information
before you can start shopping. This, in turn, creates a massive traffic
bottleneck, as the government verifies your information and decides
whether or not you're eligible for subsidies. HHS bureaucrats knew this
would make the website run more slowly. But they were more afraid that
letting people see the underlying cost of Obamacare's insurance plans
would scare people away.

HHS didn't want users to see Obamacare's true costs

"Healthcare.gov was initially going to include an option to browse before registering," report Christopher Weaver and Louise Radnofsky in the Wall Street Journal.
"But that tool was delayed, people familiar with the situation said."
Why was it delayed? "An HHS spokeswoman said the agency wanted to ensure
that users were aware of their eligibility for subsidies that could
help pay for coverage, before they started seeing the prices of policies." (Emphasis added.)

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[BigOleNastyGator]

This law is exactly what we said it would be, subsidized abortions, death panels, and massive cost increase, you're going to see degradation of care as well, just watch. This was all inevitable but idiot America got their way, and now the rest of us have to figure out how to survive their stupidity.

 

[Hoppo]

I don't think the website is intentionally defective. It's more a case of incompetence than dastardly scheme.

 

[badselectioncommittee]

Of course, Hoppo, but don't tell DJE that. That forms the basis for the world he lives in.

 

[BigOleNastyGator]

Originally posted by badselectioncommittee:
Of course, Hoppo, but don't tell DJE that. That forms the basis for the world he lives in.

Why is for philosophers, everyone with an IQ over 85 knew this was going to be a boondoggle the government is incompetent, except at spying and violating our rights, apparently they're pro at that.

 

[djegators]

Funny how I post a Forbes article for consideration but that is labeled as my personal fsntssy. Trolls be trolling.

 

[badselectioncommittee]

Originally posted by djegators:
Funny how I post a Forbes article for consideration but that is labeled as my personal fsntssy. Trolls be trolling.

No, trolling is posting some speculation that common sense tells you is ridiculous, and then try to get people to respond to. You are the biggest troll on here. The conclusion that these "glitches were intentional because they didn't want people to see the "true cost" is just assinine. The glitches are from a bad design.

This is from the same article:

One thing the Obama administration has been really paranoid about is rate shock. When someone like me says there’ll be rate shock they say you have to net out the subsidies. That is a fair point. But I think what happened was when they designed their system they were so paranoid about that that they wanted to make sure people browsing got the lowest price. That required signing in so you could see subsidies. And my theory is that’s why they went to the architecture they did even though the IT systems people wanted to go another way…
This post was edited on 10/16 3:19 PM by badselectioncommittee

 

[Gator Bait96]

Originally posted by BigOleNastyGator:
This law is exactly what we said it would be, subsidized abortions, death panels, and massive cost increase, you're going to see degradation of care as well, just watch. This was all inevitable but idiot America got their way, and now the rest of us have to figure out how to survive their stupidity.

i agree it is bs