Millions of Americans have logged onto the Healthcare.gov website since it’s Oct. 1 launch, but glitches on the websites have kept many from actually signing up, and has computer experts saying the technology needs a complete overhaul.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that programmers are taking the website down in order to fix the flaws.
“We are working really around the clock,” she said. “We have made a lot of progress. Today is better than yesterday."
CBS News reports that tech experts see major flaws, and one online programmer said he would be “ashamed” and “embarrassed” to have produced the health care website.
“It wasn’t designed well, it wasn’t implemented well, and it looks like nobody tested it,” Luke Chung, an online database programmer, told CBS News.
“It’s not even close. It’s not even ready for beta testing for my book. I would be ashamed and embarrassed if my organization delivered something like that,” he said.
Obama and his staff have downplayed the technology flaws and said delays reflected "the public’s huge interest".
The administration has refused to release the numbers for how many have signed up and media outlets have struggled to find people who have actually signed up.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/10/09/obamacare-site-glitches-continue-expert-embarrassed-by-programming/
