Obamacare - a trifecta

Obamacare is partially funded and it officially started today. Each state has a website where citizens can sign up. Only problem? Website doesn't work. First - from The Hill:

Officials tight-lipped about problems with enrollment at ObamaCare opening
The Obama administration offered few details Tuesday about the technical problems that locked consumers out of new health insurance marketplaces.

Officials from the Health and Human Services Department would not say how many people enrolled in coverage through healthcare.gov, the website for federally run insurance exchanges in 36 states.

The website was unavailable for most of the day, and technical issues also forced some state-based exchanges offline shortly after they launched Tuesday morning.

The President signed the Obamacare bill on March 23, 2010 -- it is 3.5 years old. They have not gotten their most basic shit together in 1,277 days. Imagine how long it's going to take to implement the finer details. Some major media fails - Second from National Review:

Oops: MSNBC Anchor Can�t Access Obamacare Exchange
MSNBC�s Mara Schiavocampo ran into difficulties as she tried to sign up for the newly launched health-care exchanges on Tuesday. After getting an error message on the website, she called the help line twice, but wasn�t able to reach a navigator on the other end. Instead, she was put on hold for 35 minutes.

�If I were signing up for myself, this is where my patience would be exhausted,� Schiavocampo said before she gave up.

And Third - from The Weekly Standard:

Glitch Prevents CNN from Signing Up for Obamacare
A CNN reporter tried to sign up for Obamacare, but wasn't able to because of a glitch:

(transcript of video on site)

BROOKE BALDWIN: So you guys hit a wall. we�re here in Georgia. What about other states? Similar issues?
ELIZABETH COHEN: The CNN medical team branched out. We tried in about 20 different state states. In 12 of them we hit glitches. Sometimes it made it impossible to sign up. There were error messages or that little annoying kind of twirly thing.
BALDWIN: I hate the twirly thing.
COHEN: Hate it, hate it, right? In many cases, you just couldn�t sign up.
BALDWIN: President Obama, he addressed this, speaking at the White House earlier, sort of likening it to glitches with Apple. This was the president:

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Like every new law, every new product rollout, there are going to be some glitches in the signup process along the way that we will fix. I�ve been saying this from the start. For example, we found out that there have been times this morning where the site�s been running more slowly than it normally will. The reason is because more than 1 million people visited healthcare.gov before 7:00 in the morning.

BALDWIN: He had said, you know, issues with iPhone when it first rolled out, you know, but this isn�t necessarily like the iPhone, right?
COHEN: Right. My iOS 7 works. I just sent someone an email, it works. This I couldn�t even sign up. In some states we tried, we couldn�t get to the signup point. In many cases, we hit a wall. They say they�re trying to speed it up.

There are companies out there that do enterprise software like this. Three and a half years ago, they could have approached Google, Amazon or SAP and they would have had a working system in place in under two years. But if we centralize everything, we will operate a lot more efficiently! (cough)BULLSHIT!(cough)