But it isn't just a load issue. That is why they are looking at rewriting code

One of the GOP/Media talking point is the "five million lines of code" which must be re-written. Let me just say BULLSHIT.

I've coded plenty of web sites. I got out of that part of the business not too long ago because I just wasn't interested anymore -- it took too much time, too much concentration, and not enough creativity. At least, not the visual creativity my career was focused on.

Anyway, as usual the media is trying to terrify the ignorant and conflate the Healthcare.gov issue into something it is not. IOW, while the web site might have "five million lines of code," it is not as if they're going back in and re-writing five million lines of code! A huge amount of this code is pre-written, boilerplate, cut n' paste stuff describing the particular language the site supports, looking for what type of browser the user is on, what fonts to use, how to fill the monitor, what OS is being used, etc. In other words, it's like saying the airbag is broken on your car...and your car has 20,000 individual parts. Sure, it might have 20,000 individual parts, but you don't disassemble the entire transmission and engine and body just because the airbags don't work!

Once again, the media is doing the bidding of the right-wing hysteria-mongers. "OMG! THEY HAVE TO RE-WRITE 5,000,000 LINES OF CODE!" Run for the hills with your hair on fire. Mistakes were clearly made, especially the outsourcing to massive for-profit corporations who knew full well that the United States Government will pay it's bills no matter what they charge.

They have no idea yet how many lines of code need to be rewritten. It might be more, it might be less. The first thing they have to do is a code review. Not just of the website itself, but of all of the interfacing applications, both on the government side and the insurance sides of the house.

That is not an quick and easy process.

This is going to take time if it's going to be done right.

and since it was in a movie, everybody knows it and is impressed by it. Thus, it is perfect propaganda.

He took calls yesterday on his show from people who had tried to set up health care accounts. It seems that those whose states had not set up the exchanges and refused the Medicaid money were the ones who had problems.

Seems to point to whose really at fault here.

They aren't kidding when they say they loathe government. Of course, they never mention that factoid during campaigning, but it's what they've been consistently saying all throughout.

Thankfully, it's beginning to seep through to Republican voters. When a poll shows that 52% of right-leaning voters would like to replace the Republicans in Congress, that tells me that they're waking up to the fact, however slowly, that having Republicans in gov't doesn't serve their interests.

needed for the website.. no link..

Nt

They obstructed Obamacare every step of the way, tried under fund, and undermine the whole thing since day one.

Typical bagger MO. Remember the bagger trying to blame the park ranger for something he did? And the baggers on the Hill holding hearings on why the National Parks were closed when they shutdown the Government?

If the Dems wouldn't have been able avert the debt ceiling almost apocalypse caused by the baggers - the baggers would have blamed the Dems for not stopping from destroying the country.