By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--October 21, 2013
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Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama’s online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow to issue orders for fixing those flaws, and some contractors worry that the system may be weeks away from operating smoothly, people close to the project say.
In interviews, experts said the technological problems of the site went far beyond the roadblocks to creating accounts that continue to prevent legions of users from even registering. Indeed, several said, the login problems, though vexing to consumers, may be the easiest to solve. One specialist said that as many as five million lines of software code may need to be rewritten before the Web site runs properly. “The account creation and registration problems are masking the problems that will happen later,” said one person involved in the repair effort.The sad thing is that this person is still talking about tech issues. The real problems are going to arise when people start learning the exorbitant health care costs that the Obama administration is desperately trying to portray as "affordable." Today, Obama will appear in the White House Rose Garden where he's expected to offer some sort of mea culpa. A direct admission of failure isn't his style, so you should expect him to employ his standard M.O of offering deflection, redirection, and empty promises. He'll also be announcing a "surge" that will have the "best and brightest" from the tech world working overtime to fix his mess. As yet, he's failed to answer why, exactly, the "best and brightest" weren't brought in to set up the system in the first place.
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