Obamacare website failed in tests just before launch date

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Looks like more and more lies are being uncovered. Looks like site failed with only a few hundred trying to use it.

why so many lies and cover ups

even the mainstream media can't deny it anymore

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57610138/obamacare-website-failed-in-tests-just-before-launch-date/.

(CBS News) WASHINGTON - One of the mysteries of the problems with the Obamacare website is why Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius would give the "all clear" after the system failed, repeatedly, during tests days before its debut.

CBS News has learned the website failed with a small test pool of 200 to 300 people that included employees from the government and insurance companies. The government employees worked at their own computers and desks within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversaw the health care implementation.

According to sources familiar with the process, CMS employees were provided fake personal information to enter into HealthCare.gov rather than their own data and were given a date that testing would begin. However, on that date, the employees were told it was being postponed.

Calls to delay Obamacare enrollment deadline growing CBS News has learned the Obamacare website failed in testing just before launch. / CBS News
When the testing finally took place in late September, the testers started trying to create an application. Just a couple of pages into the process, everything "ground to a stop," said one source.

"It froze. It couldn't go forward. It crashed," the source said.

A couple of days later, testers tried again and had a similar outcome. They were never able to successfully browse plans for cost estimates.

"It was unequivocally clear from testing ... this wasn't ready," said a source close to the testing.

Tavenner Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill that she had no idea just before launch that the website problems were so bad. / AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
The account is in stark contrast to the testimony Tuesday from Marilyn Tavenner, the head of CMS. She testified under oath she had no idea prior to Oct. 1 that the problems were so bad.

"We had tested the website, and we were comfortable with its performance," Tavenner said. " The volume issue and the creation of account issues was not anticipated and obviously took us by surprise and did not show up in testing."

One question this raises: Was the head of CMS unaware of the results of the testing that took place inside her own agency just days before the launch?

[JohnR! 5,495]

It is amazing that the developers did not consult with any of the companies in Silicon Valley. They could have provided them with scripts, stress test scenarios, the whole enchilada to break the system way before it was made available to the public.

It is laughable...

[sly_wolf 199]

That's what happens when you have the wrong person managing a system implementation. The priority was on delivery and now it has failed. I have seen this in corporations as well and sometimes they are forced to go back to the drawing board.

I also know lots of folks are quite happy with this system failure. Whoever managed this system implementation needs to be reassigned and I don't believe it was the IT group's failure either.