Gees, people need to get a grip. Websites take time to troubleshoot.

I don't like everything about ACA (I'd rather go further), but I want it to succeed. The website will get there, it just takes time.

On an untested website that did its first end to end test 2 weeks prior to open?

It's GLITCHY!!! Weep now for all is lost!! It will NEVER work, do you hear, NEVAH!! End it now or else we may have to suffer the indignity of WAITING several WEEKS or more for it to be fixed!! At this rate we may have to EXTEND the enrollment period!! I mean look what happened with Medicare, they had to go door to door to make sure people were getting signed up, causing the complete FAILURE of the program.

It's not like they have paper applications or a hotline to assist people.

Waiting several weeks is HORRIFIC!

Forgot the tag.

Isn't like Expedia or Amazon.com. Self employed people and others without insurance are required by law (including penalties for noncompliance) to sign up on the ACA exchanges. We were promised that we could do this online. 24 days in and I'm still not enrolled. I have no idea what it's going to cost me. Yet I have a government imposed deadline that isn't excused away because of federal incompetence.

This was a horrific, poorly executed roll out and NOTHING can excuse it.

You have until March for the penalty. January for coverage. And you have other routes if they don't get the web site working.

And it's creating the account that is the problem. If you want to have an "idea what it's going to cost you", click the damn button on the home page that's labeled "See plans and prices in your area". Here's the link if you don't want to be troubled finding the giant button yourself.

NEW MEXICO is listed on the website. Instead it tells me that Bewellnm is my website except for the fact that it won't be online until sometime next year. No plans and prices listed. Just right back to healthcare.gov.

It seems to me a lot of the cheerleaders here have not used and will not be forced to use the federal exchanges.

My state's exchange won't be operational until next year. I MUST use the federal exchange but it provides no information on NM policies or rates. When you try and get the information, it incorrectly sends you to the NM cover page for an exchange that doesn't yet exist. Once big circle of nothing.

You really need to read up on this. You have no clue how this is impacting people who actually have to use the so-called exchange.

Uh-huh.

1-800-318-2596

TTY: 1-855-889-4325

Have you even tried that? The phone operators depend on the very same screwed up website. You can't enroll, compare plans and finalize a purchase over the phone.

But do as you wish

You're kidding me, right?

Give it a shot yourself and come back and tell me how it works. Unless you're one of the people who doesn't have to use the exchanges and therefore really doesn't understand what's going on.

never mind...

Because your statements are not actually, you know, true.

But they are excellent talking points.

That you don't really know what you're talking about.

I'm not some good little foot soldier wiling to fall on her sword for "the cause". I am a real life, self employed person who has NO option but to use a system that doesn't work.

You have in fact, been given additional options... you've merely trivialized and belittled them, implying to others (among them, myself) who may have given you still other options that they too will be mocked by you in due course...

Yet, as your mind is made up that you indeed, have no options... well, that lack of critical thought must suck a lot of helium.

Guess what? They gave me info, over the phone.

And I understand, but the technical challenges remain, and I am confident they will be fixed.

Hopefully, they can fix the current system. On rare occasions, they end up just throwing it away and starting over, which would probably make a years delay.

I can't understand why they turned on the entire system at once. More often, they would get the account registration system going in advance, and let people register for accounts, and to get email updates. This would give an initial view of how much traffic to expect, and if you can't get a simple registration system working, you have big problems.

Then a few weeks before opening, they would send email to several thousand to give them a sneak peak to provide the family information and get a quote, and later open that to the general population.

Finally, you let people actually purchase a policy.

Some people did, and then all of a sudden they couldn't log in when it went live.

I read this on DU. Perhaps someone who experienced it can tell you more.

I visited the site now and then before Oct 1. I didn't notice the ability to register (I would have), but I wasn't really looking for it. I would go through the page that would ask you what state you were from, then it would direct you to the appropriate exchange (which in my case was the federal exchange), and that was about it.

I was looking for info then.

I can't remember when this was, but it was in September.

Nobody is going to lose coverage and everyone will have plenty of time to sign up.

This is another absurd fake controversy.

Promptly forgetting that Amazon, eBay and all the others they compare to took about 5 years to become stable.

Nor were they repeatedly presented as a primary tool to bring corrective competition to a market that consumes 18% of GDP to a completely irrational market.

The website has been pounded as a centerpiece for YEARS, getting the marketplace set up was the principle justification for years of delay in implementation. What do you expect the reaction to be?

What happened to accepting responsibility and making wrongs right? That is good governance, not making excuses and essentially telling folks to shut up and lump it. Being accountable and responsive builds trust and we need to build trust.

The claim is that "Amazon just works". Or eBay. Or any other major web site. The only reason for the comparison is to claim that these entities are able to handle a heavy load.

Yet they could not initially. It took them years to get to the point where they can handle a heavy load. So pointing to these companies as "how it should work" demonstrates an utter lack of knowledge on the people doing the pointing.