as long as nobody uses it. I see that someone has warned the White House about the problem that I’ve been complaining about for weeks, i.e. that the tighter the timeframe in which people must use Healthcare.gov, the greater peak load demands will be place on it:
WASHINGTON — White House officials, fearful that the federal health care website may again be overwhelmed this weekend, have urged their allies to hold back enrollment efforts so the insurance marketplace does not collapse under a crush of new users.
At the same time, administration officials said Tuesday that they had decided not to inaugurate a big health care marketing campaign planned for December out of concern that it might drive too many people to the still-fragile HealthCare.gov.
With a self-imposed deadline for repairs to the website approaching on Saturday, the administration is trying to strike a delicate balance. It is encouraging people to go or return to the website but does not want to create too much demand. It boasts that the website is vastly improved, but does not want to raise expectations that it will work for everyone.
Presumably, part of the process of limiting expectations.
I don’t think that the White House has come to terms yet with the fact that at this late date they’re imposing new requirements on Healthcare.gov that weren’t in place on October 1. You can’t manage a successful development project that way. I would be very surprised if the greater peak load requirements can be resolved simply by throwing hardware at them. There are bound to be bottlenecks.
There you are with all that fuzzy math and project management stuff again….
Given the announcement today of another delay for one of the mandates, I don’t think the Administration thinks the thing will be working all that soon.