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Great note at end of the article. Requirements and direction couldn't be simpler! “This is real simple,” Mr. Obama said, during a speech in Maryland on Sept. 2
by negamax 13y ago
Great note at end of the article. Requirements and direction couldn't be simpler!
“This is real simple,” Mr. Obama said, during a speech in Maryland on Sept. 26. “It’s a website where you can compare and purchase affordable health insurance plans side by side the same way you shop for a plane ticket on Kayak, same way you shop for a TV on Amazon. You just go on, and you start looking, and here are all the options.”
- hga 13y agoOf course, they couldn't leave well enough alone. On those sites, well, on Amazon at least, you don't have to log in until you've put something in your cart and are ready to "check out" and pay (which you can't, BTW, do on Healthcare.gov. Pay for anything, that is.) I.e. "window shopping". In August, less than 2 months before launch, orders came down from on high that all interactions would have to be proceeded by account creation and login. (Why? Well, given that you could only give it your current set of numbers under penalty of perjury....) 1 week before launch, the 2nd week into testing, the system failed with something like 200 simultaneous simulated logins).