WTF? I thought WA's ACA site was separate from the

[freeplessinseattle]

one the media has been freaking out about. So the glitches etc. shouldn't have affected any WA residents, right?

Yet I just heard on the local news, "coming up-now that the ACA site is up and running, how many people in our state have signed up?"

Do they even think about what they are reading on the teleprompter, sheesh, how pathetic. Maybe brains are just taking awhile to warm up this icy morning. Or not.

[rurallib]

1. I think everyone enters through the same website

then you select your state and if you are one of the lucky ones you get to go to a site used only by your state. Else you go to the federal site.

[alc]

2. "sites" have many parts

I don't know about WA. They may have built the part you see themselves. But they need the subsidy calculations, income verification and other data from the fed services. They could have architected it so they don't need real-time access to the fed services but my guess is that they would get the data as needed rather than get regular updates for everyone they think is in their state (they'd get data for a lot of people who never logon and miss data for people who recently moved). At the very least they need to get the subsidy details of purchased insurance to the feds.

The focus has been on what people see, but there's A LOT of other stuff (backend) going on. My job is backend development - including global consumer websites with access to data/services in multiple countries - so I have some idea of the effort involved and how issues on the fed services would affect the states (and that it can't be built in 30 days or a weekend like the media has claimed - that's the front end and local db/services rather than fed services).