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Have anyone asking for a delay considered the 10s of thousands per year who die due to inadequate access to health care? What do we tell them?
So you're saying that you haven't even been to the site and tried to register...awesome
This "system" has been an epic failure...thank your GOP buddies that they are too dumb to take advantage of this fiasco.
I've gone over there 3-4 times a day each day it's been open. I THINK I have an ID and password, but am not sure. When I try to log in I get a 404 message. I guess that's better than the 500 messages last week, but still. SNL said it best. The government has been running on this issue for 8 years telling us 50 million don't have insurance then are surprised when they turn it on that 50 million people want to access it. That's like 1800 flowers being blindsided by Valentines Day
Sorry about that, Bagger. Not to worry, people rarely type my name properly either (there are 3 Ts back to back, with an L on the backside).
What about all the people who will not be able to afford healthcare thanks to this new law? For instance, those who have their healthcare cancelled by employer and then can't afford the new "affordable" premiums.
"Open enrollment" won't be year round, for one.
As an IT guy, it is staggering how much of a failure this website is. Unbelievable. Fortunately they can just say " well everybody wants in" and half the country eats it up. In gonna try that line at work today.I've gone over there 3-4 times a day each day it's been open. I THINK I have an ID and password, but am not sure. When I try to log in I get a 404 message. I guess that's better than the 500 messages last week, but still. SNL said it best. The government has been running on this issue for 8 years telling us 50 million don't have insurance then are surprised when they turn it on that 50 million people want to access it. That's like 1800 flowers being blindsided by Valentines Day
And that sentence right there doesn't tell you how massively expensive this will be, and will continue to be?
I wonder if people like you (and me) are the reason there have been "millions of hits per day"? Of course they will have that when it's not working and people attempt the site 10-20x per day.I've gone over there 3-4 times a day each day it's been open. I THINK I have an ID and password, but am not sure. When I try to log in I get a 404 message. I guess that's better than the 500 messages last week, but still. SNL said it best. The government has been running on this issue for 8 years telling us 50 million don't have insurance then are surprised when they turn it on that 50 million people want to access it. That's like 1800 flowers being blindsided by Valentines Day
Just saying this guy won't die from his situation as Tommy Gunz would have you believe above as he doesn't have "adequate access to healthcare".
our group would have been fired over a performance like this.As an IT guy, it is staggering how much of a failure this website is. Unbelievable. Fortunately they can just say " well everybody wants in" and half the country eats it up. In gonna try that line at work today.I've gone over there 3-4 times a day each day it's been open. I THINK I have an ID and password, but am not sure. When I try to log in I get a 404 message. I guess that's better than the 500 messages last week, but still. SNL said it best. The government has been running on this issue for 8 years telling us 50 million don't have insurance then are surprised when they turn it on that 50 million people want to access it. That's like 1800 flowers being blindsided by Valentines Day
How about just delaying the individual mandate, which would save the government Billions of dollars? That would also alleviate some of web traffic the sites are getting at the moment.
Doesn't matter...if they didn't expect millions of hits per day to begin with....knowing it was brand new and 50 million didn't have insurance that wanted it, that's on them. I play by their rules...I wait in line...going through their design etc. Everything that I've encountered seems to being insufficient architecture in place to handle the load. That's a planning/implementation problem and my 3-4 times a day isn't going to make a difference.I wonder if people like you (and me) are the reason there have been "millions of hits per day"? Of course they will have that when it's not working and people attempt the site 10-20x per day.I've gone over there 3-4 times a day each day it's been open. I THINK I have an ID and password, but am not sure. When I try to log in I get a 404 message. I guess that's better than the 500 messages last week, but still. SNL said it best. The government has been running on this issue for 8 years telling us 50 million don't have insurance then are surprised when they turn it on that 50 million people want to access it. That's like 1800 flowers being blindsided by Valentines Day
Plus they probably had to hire security people to ensure that no employees try to come to work to work.
And a cleaner to kill the security guards after work every day so the media doesn't find out about it.
Let's just say that someone, somewhere decided it was a good idea to implement brand new identity proofing software at the same time our company was ramping up data collection for the ACA. The Identity proofing software was not developed by my company so I don't have specific information on when/if it will get "fixed". I do know they are contemplating other more extreme measures. I can't really get into more detail.
This won't get delayed. Even if the account portion never gets fixed in time. People can always get insurance the old fashioned way, by calling up the Issuer themselves, or working through a broker.
Out of barricades. Two essential personnel just stand there and holds up the ends of the rope.
Heard they were hiring people with megaphones to continually announce that the government was shut down to people passing by.
Due to budget cuts, there's only one megaphone-wielding employee for every ten people in this country. Time was, every citizen would have someone following him or her around. Thanks, Obama.
Actually, no, they wouldn't be bankrupt at all. If they've "been T-boned", the other driver's insurance would pay for the medical bills.
Insurance minimums are generally insufficient to pay for vehicle damage plus emergency room bills in the case of a serious car accident. Hopefully you get t-boned by someone with a 100-300 policy at a minimum.
How many die every year due to lack of access to adequate health care according to your research?
The research shows that people died for lack of health insurance, not for lack of health care. People can still receive health care, even without insurance. All these people obtaining insurance (at a massive cost to the taxpayer) will not simply save all of those people, though. Further, this will lead to a supply and demand situation leaving others to go without care when needed and them to suffer (and die) because of it, even though they had insurance.
He's likely referring to this ;
Do you have the cure to cancer? B/c I'm pretty sure we have the cure to getting most of these folks access to health care.
Matttyl seems to be correct: the study was 45k deaths are "associated with the lack of health insurance." Why do you keep associating the deaths with a lack of adequate access to health care?
So what if ACA becomes so unaffordable that many people end up paying the fines and not having health insurance. What about all the deaths that could occur then? Since we are pulling numbers out of thin air and imagining that this new system is going to save 20k-30k people a year, let's make sure we factor in the deaths that could possibly occur due to people not having health insurance when they previously did, due to the high cost.
Yes.I haven't been able to get that far as of yet.
When did the goal become "access to health care"?? Anyone can walk into an emergency room today and get treated. If you're talking about access to insurance, that's a different discussion and even then the access is only part of the equation. Doesn't help at all if they can't afford the access.
B/c I think the two are related.
With the way this is going, there's not a chance you're going to get a real number for a while. Just a hunch.
Sounds like making access to affordable health care for the 50M who are currently uninsured should be something we do immediately. Maybe create individual state markets in which private insurers compete to provide similar products for uninsured folks, and have the gov't subsidize those purchasing insurance from those markets if they meet certain income requirements.
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