Healthcare.Gov Regularly Getting a Quarter-Million Simultaneous Hits - 5X Predicted Traffic

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Healthcare.Gov Regularly Getting a Quarter-Million Simultaneous Hits - 5X Predicted Traffic

by ericlewis


From USA Today:

The government website launched this week to sell health insurance was overwhelmed by up to five times as many users as it was designed to handle, President Obama's top technology adviser said Saturday in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY.

U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said the government expected HealthCare.gov to draw 50,000 to 60,000 simultaneous users, but instead it has drawn as many as 250,000 at a time since it launched Oct. 1.

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The administration built the site's capacity based partly on the all-time high of 30,000 simultaneous users for Medicare.gov, an existing site where senior citizens can buy or renew prescription-drug plans under Medicare Part D, Park said. Its theoretical maximum capacity hasn't been disclosed.

More than 8.1 million consumers visited the site from Tuesday through Friday, according to the White House...

http://www.usatoday.com/...

Clearly, Americans want nothing to do with this odious new healthcare law! Lolz

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Those numbers are amazing!

Yup...Americans want nothing to do with this odious new healthcare law!

[liberalmike27]

3. Hearing Republicans Complaining

They are saying "Websites are crashing in this disastrous launch of Obamacare."

Yes, just like the iPhone 5C is a terrible product because people waited on the first day for 2 or more hours in lines to buy it.

Like you pointed out, they are crashing because too many people are trying to get in on the first day, which I think is kind of stupid in the first place, as we've got three months, plus until March next year. But come on, it's a disaster because of its incredible popularity that mimics and Dos (denial of service) attack? Nope.

Stupid people might believe this is true. Not anyone with a brain.

[zbdent]

6. Hell, I can't get through the local radio station phone line

to be the 15th caller ...

[StrictlyRockers]

2. I think once they get a taste of it, all the propaganda against it will backfire.

People will start to wonder why they were lied to...

[hue]

4. Obamacare really means Obama cares!!

President Obama made a vow when sitting at His Mother's bedside as She lay dying of cancer.

Quote from Wiki:

I remember my mother. She was 52 years old when she died of ovarian cancer, and you know what she was thinking about in the last months of her life? She wasn't thinking about getting well. She wasn't thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality. She had been diagnosed just as she was transitioning between jobs. And she wasn't sure whether insurance was going to cover the medical expenses because they might consider this a preexisting condition. I remember just being heartbroken, seeing her struggle through the paperwork and the medical bills and the insurance forms. So, I have seen what it's like when somebody you love is suffering because of a broken health care system. And it's wrong. It's not who we are as a people.[55]

And He is keeping His Vow.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. The New York exchange experienced a DDoS attack the first day.

Some evil people want it to fail in the worst kind of ways and damn the people who need it.