by | October 2, 2013 · 12:25 am

Day One: ObamaCare sign-up report

Obama tweeted: “The Affordable Care Act is moving forward. You can’t shut it down.”

Actually … we didn’t need to, because ObamaCare’s federal and state health exchange websites worked about as much as … well, Obama does.

2013_10 01 Healthcare dot gov down

  • 12:48 AM – 1 Oct 2013: Looks like no one in Oklahoma is going to be getting obamacare today!
  • 1:46 AM – 1 Oct 2013: DC’s health exchange link does not have an “apply” button yet.
  • 1:46 AM – 1 Oct 2013: Maryland isn’t allowing people to sign up or browse.
  • 2:26 AM – 1 Oct 2013: Day one obamacare: the oregon exchange is down!

2013_10 01 No chat site

  • 5:26 AM – 1 Oct 2013: California Obamacare Exchange Offline

Good News: HealthCare dot gov is no longer down.

Bad News: HealthCare dot gov still does not actually function.

  • 7:44 AM – 1 Oct 2013: @HealthCareGov Live Chat keeps customer waiting 35 minutes, then tells him they already know Step 3 is broken.
  • 7:50 AM – 1 Oct 2013: @HealthCareGov does not work. They know this. But they still have the website live. Idiots.
  • 7:53 AM – 1 Oct 2013: @HealthCareGov @WhiteHouse you could use social media to say, “Our site doesn’t work right so don’t waste time”

But noooooooooooooooooo ….

  • 8:12 AM – 1 Oct 2013: @HealthCareGov “Important: Your account couldnt be created at this time. The system is unavailable.”
  • 8:15 AM – 1 Oct 2013: @HealthCareGov doesn’t work, there’s no email link, doesn’t recognize log in, etc.
  • 8:59 AM – 1 Oct 2013: @HealthCareGov sign-up process asked for security questions; offered literally zero, but demanded answers to them.

2013_10 01 Wasting your time

Oh the irony … “please be patient” repeated ad nauseum while waiting to sign up for health insurance. 

2013_10 01 Incompetence

Rightwired tweeted: “I can’t tell you how many sites I’ve built and launched..and you test, retest, retest, retest, then stress test over and over and over. It’s the most basic thing there is. Their incompetence is staggering.”

  • 11:42 AM – 1 Oct 2013: Colorado shut down the “create account” function “to ensure a smooth shopping process.”

Connecticut’s site worked. Except nobody much wanted to buy anything. And it was really glitchy.

2013_10 01 CT Obamacare site tweet

An hour later, they had TWO MORE enrollees!! Oohhhh, ahhhh.

Maybe the reason they aren’t closing deals is that the cheapest plan for 27-yr old earning $30K is $130/month … which is 67% higher than cheapest plan prior to Obamacare. But hey … you can keep your doctor (if you can find him).

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11 responses to “Day One: ObamaCare sign-up report”

  1. chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
    October 2, 2013 at 12:37 am

    We were not even one whole day into ObamaMess before there’d already been a security breach. An employee of Minnesota’s Obamacare exchange, MNsure, sent an unencrypted file to the wrong person and left 2,400 people’s Social Security numbers, names, addresses and other personal data to a whole list of insurance agents.

    http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/14/obamacare-exchange-leaks-data-of-2400-unsuspecting-customers/

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  2. chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
    October 2, 2013 at 1:11 am

    Tweets:

    I’m sorry, I guess I expected billions of dollars and three years to be enough time to get a website working properly. My bad.

    So far, I’ve been hearing from stories from friends whose insurance is practically doubling b/c of #Obamacare. My lib friends sure are quiet.

    So was slavery. Segregation. Prohibition. MT @TheDemocrats: It was passed. Signed into law. Upheld by the Supreme Court.

    @Flotus used to be paid to send poor people to a different hospital.

    “It’s the law!” (“Which is why we amended it and passed over 1,200 waivers and exempted ourselves from it.”) – Democrat lawmakers

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  3. chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
    October 2, 2013 at 1:40 am

    Ari Fleischer ‏- Pres O compares launch of ACA w/ Apple – but people buy Apple because they want to, not because they’re forced to. Plus iPhones work.

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  4. chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
    October 2, 2013 at 1:40 am

    angelaisms ‏- Dear Mr. President: Obamacare is your baby. We’d rather not be punished with it. Love, America

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  5. bluebird of bitterness's avatar bluebird of bitterness
    October 2, 2013 at 11:42 pm

    “Americans don’t want a dignified surrender on Obamacare. They want someone to drive a stake through Obamacare.” —Pat Buchanan

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