this is the money quote from the admin's IT guru:


Quote:
President Obama's chief technology adviser, Todd Park, blames the unexpectedly large numbers of people who flocked to Healthcare.gov and state websites. "Take away the volume and it works," he told USA TODAY's Tim Mullaney.


how much volume was too much volume in a country of 300 million people you ask?


Originally Posted By: the same IT guru
Park said the administration expected 50,000 to 60,000 simultaneous users.


so let's stipulate that (at some point) everyone's going to have to check out this website (300 million).

the system's designed for 50,000 (or less) unique log-ins at a time.

that's a 600X built-in under-capacity.


Do the math on this and each of us has 41 minutes PER YEAR of log in time to arrange for health insurance -- and that assumes 100% up-time, and with the servers still offline, we've now lost 11,520 minutes and counting.

good luck with that!!!


edited to add:

BTW, I simplified the problem above.

technically, we only have until Dec 14, 2013 to sign up.


THAT'S 21 SECONDS apiece at the present server capacity, which still isn't up and running.

How many f'n years have they had to plan for this? Idiots!