The failure of the new ObamaCare health insurance exchange website came as “a bolt from the blue” to the IT staff in the Obama administration, especially because the system had been thoroughly beta-tested for nearly a year among the Amish community in rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania. HealthCare.gov servers buckled under traffic five times greater than the maximum anticipated volume.

“We were firing on all cylinders during the prototype stage,” said an unnamed IT staffer at HealthCare.gov. “Page-load times were measured in minutes rather than the current hours, and that was after heavy local TV promotion soliciting Amish beta customers.”

The crew that coded Amish.HealthCare.gov said the telephone hotline was “practically silent” turning the trial period, meaning that virtually no problems were reported with the system.

“We thought we were, as NASA says, ‘Go at throttle up.’” the source said. “The fact that people now report they can’t login after dozens of attempts for almost a week is a real mystery to us.”

A White House spokesman said the president is “focused like a laser” on solving the problem.

“We just posted an invitation to our Amish beta-tester forum,” said Press Secretary Jay Carney, “We’re asking for volunteers to fly from Lancaster down to D.C. later today to do a focus group so we can get to the bottom of this.”
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You'd think they could have at least sprung a couple of 'A' student nerds and a few hundred taxpayer dollars away from the bazillion dollar email and cell phone snooping government supercomputers project and put them to work for a couple of hours designing an Obamacare website that doesn't crash when more than a half dozen people try to log in at a time.

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I wonder what andytv's opinion of this story is . . . (?) 🤔

Believe a Canadian firm was paid big bucks to develop the website. So much for creating American jobs.

American jobs have been getting outsourced for years now. The last contract IT gig I had was in a large datacenter. Nothing but Dell servers as far as the MS stuff was concerned. If we had a problem I called tech support and spoke with someone in the states. Calling Dell tech support now gets you routed to the Philippines. They are not the only ones either. Lot's of IT tech support as well as other call center activity is handled there, India and other less developed countries.

We have the highest corporate Tax rate in the world. Is it any wonder no American jobs are being created.

Wonder if the guys from the Amish Mafia were getting a kick back from this?