Sadly, the status report on Healthcare.gov from HHS doesn’t include a lot more information than is contained in article about it by Garance Franke-Ruta at The Atlantic. She sums up:
Federal officials said Sunday they had achieved their goal of making Healthcare.gov work smoothly for the vast majority of users.
“The site is now stable and operating at its intended capacity,” Jeffrey Zients said in a morning conference call with reporters that formally announced the achievement of a trio of goals.
As expected, Zients—the former health-care-management consultant and Office of Management and Budget official tasked with leading the website-repair effort—said the site would now be able to serve 50,000 users at the same time and had reduced error rates and page-load times to acceptable levels.
“The bottom line: Healthcare.gov on December 1st is night and day from where it was on October 1st,” Zients said.
To drive that point home, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report that detailed just how badly the site was functioning in October and early November.
The report concentrates heavily on inputs rather than outputs. From a technical standpoint the bottom line questions aren’t how many errors they’ve fixed but how many there are, concurrent users supported but end-to-end registrations to enrollments that can be processed per day.
Speaking of driving 100 miles……more government ineptitude.
I commented about this several months ago.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/12/02/210101/obama-spends-600-million-on-rail.html
“Big Rail” measures its annual capex in multi-billions. Its just a giveaway, including to a certain W. Buffet who claims to want to pay more taxes, but doesn’t, but gladly takes taxpayer subsidies. An error of omission by McClatchy I guess.
They did make one factual mistake, though, calling Chicago the busiest rail hub in the country. As we all know, Chicago has lost its logistics significance…….and now only tumbleweeds roll through. Some guy named Reynolds told me so.