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Even Consumer Reports, long famed for their support of big-government solutions to problems, says that the Obamacare websites are better avoided than used.
How can a health care scheme that's been on the books for three years, with half a $billion spent on website developers, have so many major problems with its website even after all that time and effort to set up?
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Consumer Reports: ?Stay Away From HealthCare.gov' | National Review Online
Consumer Reports: Stay Away From HealthCare.gov
By Alec Torres
October 21, 2013 9:56 AM
Consumer Reports, which publishes reviews of consumer products and services, advised its readers to avoid the federal healthcare exchange for at least another month if you can. Hopefully that will be long enough for its software vendors to clean up the mess theyve made, the magazine said, having tested the site themselves over the course of the past three weeks.
Noting that only 271,000 of the 9.47 million people who tried signing up in the first week managed to create an account, Consumer Reports then provided a few tips to those attempting to slog through the application process. From attempting successive logins because error messages may not always match reality to checking your inbox frequently because if you miss an e-mail youll be timed out of the site and forced to start from square one, none of the suggestions guaranteed success.
The magazine has also released a string of scathing reviews. On October 1, the day the Obamacare exchanges went online, the magazine told people to be patient: Dont worry if you cant sign up today or even within the next couple of weeks. A week into enrollment, they urged again to wait a couple weeks and hope that the site irons out its many problems because the HealthCare.gov is barely operational.
How can a health care scheme that's been on the books for three years, with half a $billion spent on website developers, have so many major problems with its website even after all that time and effort to set up?
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Consumer Reports: ?Stay Away From HealthCare.gov' | National Review Online
Consumer Reports: Stay Away From HealthCare.gov
By Alec Torres
October 21, 2013 9:56 AM
Consumer Reports, which publishes reviews of consumer products and services, advised its readers to avoid the federal healthcare exchange for at least another month if you can. Hopefully that will be long enough for its software vendors to clean up the mess theyve made, the magazine said, having tested the site themselves over the course of the past three weeks.
Noting that only 271,000 of the 9.47 million people who tried signing up in the first week managed to create an account, Consumer Reports then provided a few tips to those attempting to slog through the application process. From attempting successive logins because error messages may not always match reality to checking your inbox frequently because if you miss an e-mail youll be timed out of the site and forced to start from square one, none of the suggestions guaranteed success.
The magazine has also released a string of scathing reviews. On October 1, the day the Obamacare exchanges went online, the magazine told people to be patient: Dont worry if you cant sign up today or even within the next couple of weeks. A week into enrollment, they urged again to wait a couple weeks and hope that the site irons out its many problems because the HealthCare.gov is barely operational.
