Obamacare tech guru says website capacity to double

[ProSense]

Obamacare tech guru says website capacity to double

By Roberta Rampton and Sharon Begley

(Reuters) - HealthCare.gov, the ailing website handling health insurance sales under President Barack Obama's healthcare law, will soon be able to handle 50,000 simultaneous users, the top official charged with making it work said Friday.

Jeffrey Zients, the Obama administration's HealthCare.gov troubleshooter, said that figure is the capacity the site's architects originally intended.

The system currently can handle 25,000 users at once, up from fewer than 1,000 in its early days.

HealthCare.gov will be able to handle 800,000 people per day by the end of November, Zients said, largely because of the more than 300 software and other fixes that technology teams have made to the site in the past seven weeks.

The increase in capacity also will come from a doubling of the system's hardware capacity, planned for this weekend, he said.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/22/us-usa-healthcare-idUSBRE9AL13C20131122

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Well, that's good, I guess.

You'd think this capacity would have been in place before the program was rolled out.

This has made our President look foolish and has been a gift to the loons on the right.

What a shame.

[msongs]

2. and the number of people fired for gross incompetence so far is...? nt

[ProSense]

3. Here:

Texas GOP Lawmaker Charged With Felony In Airport Gun Incident
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/texas-gop-lawmaker-faces-felony-charge-for-taking-gun-through-airport-security

Utah Officials Find Probable Cause Outgoing Attorney General Broke Law
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/utah-officials-find-probable-cause-outgoing-attorney-general-broke-law

Now, for even better news:

Obamacare enrollments double in last three weeks
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/22/1257664/-Obamacare-enrollments-double-in-last-three-weeks

[trumad]

5. Thanks Pro...

Love good news...some others... not so much.

[ProSense]

6. You're welcome. n/t

[bluestate10]

8. Always some negativity. Why not focus on incessant republican attempts to blowup

the ACA, including refusing funds that would have allowed implementers to hire more programmers and buy better computer and networking equipment. May be we should move on to a discussion of Chained CPI, oh I forgot, that will be the outrage of next month.

[geek tragedy]

4. Darrell Issa wants to know the same thing. nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. 1, That I know of ...

The former Project Manager that was responsible for the botched project ... as it should be.

And it was done in the appropriate manner ... out of the blood lustful view of the perpetually angry.

[Cha]

7. Kickity Kick Kick!

[Major Hogwash]

9. They've added 2 more hamsters and another wheel to the servers of the system.

Just kidding.
Here's the important part ---

HealthCare.gov will be able to handle 800,000 people per day by the end of November . . .