After the President made his "the website will be fixed by December 1st" promise, it took about 5 minutes for sane people everywhere to realize there was no way he could keep it. The problems with Healthcare.gov simply run too deep. Experts were saying the site needed months of work, and possibly a complete overhaul. Anyone could see that six weeks wasn't going to be enough time, regardless of how many "best and brightest tech experts" the Obama administration threw at the problem.