PPACA Boondoggle

[whell]

The website still doesn't work. The number of folks that have successfully signed up on the site for Obamacare plans may only be in the single digits. The site was taken down for coding fixesand then rolled out again a couple days ago, with no apparent improvement in the outcomes for trying in vain to access the site.

What did we pay for this cluster f*@k? $634 million, and counting! For perspective:

"Facebook, which received its first investment in June 2004, operated for a full six years before surpassing the $600 million mark in June 2010. Twitter, created in 2006, managed to get by with only $360.17 million in total funding until a $400 million boost in 2011. Instagram ginned up just $57.5 million in funding before Facebook bought it for (a staggering) $1 billion last year. And LinkedIn and Spotify, meanwhile, have only raised, respectively, $200 million and $288 million."

All the noise the administration has made about the lack of functionality of healthcare.gov being such a good problem to have because the snafus are indicative of web traffic? Uh, not so fast. It stems from poorly written code, and the HTML coding used for healthcare.gov has been posted on the web for anyone to see.

What an embarrassment.