Indoctrination: Connecticut school blocks GOP and conservative websites, but not liberal ones...

Your kids aren't getting an education, they are getting a liberal indoctrination...

Via Fox CT:

A Woodbury High Schooler claims he uncovered political bias in the implementation of a firewall blocking some political Web sites at his school.
18-year-old Andrew Lampart, a senior at Nonnewaug High School, said he made the discovery when he was doing research for a classroom debate on gun control in May. Lampart said he first noticed that he could not get on the web site for the National Rifle Association.
“So, I went over to the other side. And I went over on sites such as Moms Demand Action or Newtown Action Alliance and I could get on these Web sites but not the others,” Lampart said.
Lampart investigated further, by broadening his search terms to Connecticut’s political parties.
“I immediately found out that the State Democrat web site was unblocked but the State GOP web site was blocked.”
Lampart even looked at Web sites focusing on abortion issues and religion. He found that “right-to-life” groups were blocked by the public school firewall but that Planned Parenthood and Pro-Choice America were not. He also tried to get on web sites such as Christianity.com and the Vatican’s web site but both were blocked. Islam-guide.com he found, was not.

Obama to press: Obamacare website failures aren't news anymore...

Marching orders...

Via The Hill:

President Obama expressed the White House’s frustration with news coverage of the Affordable Care Act’s rocky rollout by taking a jab at the press on Tuesday.
During his ObamaCare enrollment victory lap speech in the Rose Garden, the president swiped at reporters, who the White House believes were too eager to spotlight every incremental development associated with the site’s botched launch.
“I want to make sure everybody understands – in the months, years ahead, I guarantee you there will be additional challenges to implementing this law,” Obama said. “There will be days when the website stumbles. I guarantee it. So – press, I want you to anticipate there will be some moment when the website is down and I know it will be on all your front pages. It’s going to happen. It won’t be news.”
Obama cracked a smile during the remark, and Vice President Biden, standing behind the president, laughed as well.
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Guess which website crashed again...

It wasn't Amazon...

Via Politico:

HealthCare.gov went down for at least 30 minutes Tuesday, an outage blamed on “human error.”
Although resolved quickly, the occurrence was an immediate reminder of how much is riding on the federal enrollment website’s smooth functioning in the final two weeks of the 2014 enrollment season. On Monday, administration officials described a sharp increase in sign-ups during the first half of March that brought the total to 5 million people nationwide. …
“The system is down at the moment. We’re currently experiencing technical difficulties and hope to have them resolved soon. Please try again later,” read the error screen, which appeared upon clicking the “Log In” button on the site’s home screen. It also invited users to submit their email addresses to be notified when the site was back up.

It's come to this: White House website is posting twerking gifs

Here it is:

This is supposed to make you want to buy Obamacare or something...

How is that Spanish Obamacare website working out?

Not very well...

Via AP:

And the translations were so clunky and full of grammatical mistakes that critics say they must have been computer-generated — the name of the site itself can literally be read “for the caution of health.”

“When you get into the details of the plans, it’s not all written in Spanish. It’s written in Spanglish, so we end up having to translate it for them,” said Adrian Madriz, a health care navigator who helps with enrollment in Miami. …

In New Mexico, the state with the nation’s highest percentage of Latino residents and where more than 20 percent of the state’s population goes without health insurance, fewer than 1,000 people total signed up for coverage in October and November. …

“In my opinion, the website doesn’t work,” said Grettl Diaz, a 37-year-old Miami gas station cashier who is originally from Cuba.

Diaz said she tried to sign up at home using CuidadoDeSalud.gov. After she couldn’t get the website to accept a scanned document, she called the government’s Spanish hotline seeking help. However, she was repeatedly told to call back because the site was down. She got through days later and waited over an hour for an operator before she was ultimately disconnected.

Latest Obamacare Glitch: Disappearing enrollment reports

So, many people think they are signed up, but they really aren't? They are going to be really pissed come January. 

Via WaPo:

. . . “The system will not work perfectly on Dec. 1, but it will operate much better than it did in October,” Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency in charge of HealthCare.gov, told reporters on Monday.
Even if it does work better for consumers, there are still problems — particularly the scrambled reports insurers are getting about people who have signed up for coverage through HealthCare.gov. Insurers say they are getting duplicate records and reports that misstate family relationships, such as listing a child as a spouse.
In some cases, enrollment reports are disappearing. With these “orphan records,” insurers have no way of knowing whether a person is signed up for coverage, unless a new customer happens to call the company with questions.
“The biggest concern is that there are going to be people showing up to get their care,” said one person close to the insurance industry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues. “Then [the doctors or hospitals] call us and we have no record, and then the consumer is left frustrated and worried and scared.”
Until such errors stop, “you can’t open the floodgates” to large numbers of Americans using the Web site to sign up for coverage

Amusing Video: Healthcare.gov website crashes during Sebelius PR event

Sebelius couldn't buy a break. The website seems to crash everytime she gets near a computer.

At a second table, the secretary met Carmen Salero who was trying to sign up online. As the secretary and Salero made small talk, CBS4′s Brian Andrews noticed the site crash on the lap top in front of them.
“The screen says I’m sorry but the system is temporarily down,” Andrews pointed out. “Uh oh,” responded the secretary. “That happens every day,” said Salerno, “it must mean a lot of people are on there trying to get coverage.”

Change: Sebelius walks back the 30th of November HealthCare.gov website fix date...

It's a moving target...

Via Associated Press:

The HealthCare.gov website will still be a work in progress beyond the end of the month, Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday, appearing to soften a promise that the site will be working by then for the vast majority of users.
“The 30th of November is not a magic go, no go date. It is a work of constant improvement. We have some very specific things we know we need to complete by the 30th and that punch list is getting knocked out every week,” Sebelius told The Associated Press.
Sebelius made stops in Orlando and Miami on Tuesday to address the fallout over the new health care law’s paltry enrollment figures and continuing website problems.
The Obama administration has staked its credibility on turning HealthCare.gov around by the end of this month. From the president on down, officials have said the website will be running smoothly for the “vast majority of users” by Nov. 30, but have been vague about what that actually means.
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Scary: California shuts down 10 fake "Covered California" websites...

There are more than 700 fake Obamacare websites. The feds are hesitating to take them down because they have signed up more people that the real site. (snark)

(Reuters) - Authorities in California shut down 10 fake Obamacare websites, amid nationwide concern among law enforcement officials about potential fraud during the program's rollout, the state's attorney general said on Thursday.
The sites, which mimicked the official "Covered California" affordable health insurance website, were removed from the internet in an effort to stop fraud connected to the rollout, said a spokesman for California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who ordered the sites to close after a month-long investigation.
"These websites fraudulently imitated Covered California in order to lure consumers away from plans that provide the benefits of the Affordable Care Act," Harris said in a statement. "My office will continue to investigate and shut down these kinds of sites."

Fail: Obama administration sets goal of 80% usability for Obamacare website...

The Obama administration will declare healthcare.gov website a success if 80% of users can buy insurance online. That means 20% will fail for some reason. Would Amazon consider their website successful if 20% of consumers who wanted to buy something couldn't successfully get it selected and checked out?

Via WaPo:

The Obama administration will consider the new federal insurance marketplace a success if 80 percent of users can buy health-care plans online, according to government and industry officials familiar with the project.
The goal for how many people should be able to make it through the insurance exchange is an internal target that administration officials have not made public. It acknowledges that as many as one in five Americans who try to use the Web site to buy insurance will be unable to do so.
The measure is the first concrete performance standard in the 3¹/₂ years since the government began to design the health exchange, and was defined by a group of federal officials and technical experts in late October. It is now guiding the work of hundreds of government employees and contractors racing to try to repair the balky Web site by the administration’s Nov. 30 deadline.
Whether the government meets the benchmark — and whether the public regards it as adequate — will be a central factor in President Obama’s efforts to increase support for the controversial health-care law and lure customers to the federal insurance marketplace.
The goal is that 80 percent of people going to HealthCare.gov should manage to enroll electronically — but that means that many others, perhaps tens of thousands, will not succeed. It puts more pressure on the administration to fix technical problems that have made it difficult for people to sign up for coverage by other routes, including federally sponsored call centers and the insurers themselves.
Administration officials acknowledge that until recently, they had no concrete definition for how well HealthCare.gov should work...

WhiteHouse.gov finally edits webpage claiming "If you like your plan you can keep it "

Strangely, they left the lie intact and added a link to Obama's propaganda so-called NBC apology interview.

Here is the original version via CNBC.

Here is the current version on WhiteHouse.gov.

Obamacare website going down for three days starting Saturday night...

Perhaps they should just try rebooting...

Via WSJ:

Consumers won’t be able to find out their eligibility for federal health insurance subsidies on HealthCare.gov for much of the next three days because of scheduled maintenance, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Friday.
The Internal Revenue Service will be conducting maintenance on a system that allows HealthCare.gov to check whether applicants qualify for federal subsidies. The system will go down Saturday night and won’t be available again until Tuesday morning, the spokeswoman said.
Even though applicants won’t be able to check their subsidy eligibility, they’ll still be able to create accounts, shop for health plans and enroll, CMS says. The troubled HealthCare.gov website will also be offline every day for its regular early-morning maintenance.
Government contractors continue to make upgrades to the site. Jeffrey Zients, the former budget official who’s been brought in to clean up the HealthCare.gov mess, said on a call with reporters Friday that even as new fixes have been made, increased traffic volume is “exposing new storage capacity and software issues.”

Flashback: Obama shows how easy Obamacare website is to use (video)

Unintentional humor...



Obama should get his presidential seal  MacBook Pro back out and try the website now. 

Spiffy: Three guys make Obamacare website that actually works

And it didn't cost a half a billion dollars...

Via The Atlantic Wire:

The Affordable Health Care act rollout was an unmitigated disaster thanks in large part to a cluttered website that both didn't work and was offensively ugly. Maybe things would not have gone so poorly if HealthCare.gov looked something like this. 

No one knows the resources that went into building HealthCare.gov, but the government quickly realized it wasn't enough after that terrible first day, so they decided to bring in a crew of leading tech experts to fix the website's many, many problems. But the job was already at least partially completed by three unknown coders living in San Francisco. 

Meet the Health Sherpa, the website HealthCare.gov probably should have been. George Kalogeropoulos, Ning Liang and Michael Wasser saw the troubled launch and decided they could do a better health care enrolment website better than the government and, by golly, they succeeded. The Health Sherpa makes it ridiculously easy for anyone to compare health care plans covered under Obamacare in 34 states. (They left out the 16 states with existing marketplace sites, though it seems support for those states is coming soon.) The result is a simple, beautiful, remarkably responsive website that anyone could use.

Amusing: White House worried Obamacare website will start working and people won't like what they see...

I can answer that concern for them. All the people with higher premiums, deductibles and fewer choices are going to be mad as hell.

Washington (CNN) - Officials expressed concern that the next shoe to drop in the evolving story about the Affordable Care Act would be disappointment from consumers once they are able to get on the troubled HealthCare.gov website – disappointment because of sticker shock and limited choice, according to a new document obtained by CNN.
“Mike described a general concern of PM (Project Management): getting to the point where the website is functioning properly and individuals begin to select plans; the media attention will follow individuals to plan selection and their ultimate choices; and, in some cases, there will be fewer options than would be desired to promote consumer choice and an ideal shopping experience. Additionally, in some cases there will be relatively high cost plans,” say the notes from the Obama administration’s Obamacare ‘War Room’ from one week ago.
Project Management is a reference to those individuals in the Obama administration tasked with standing up the Affordable Health Care law at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight.

Tweet of the Day: Republican gives Kathleen Sebelius a copy of 'Web Sites For Dummies'

Check out the book a Republican state senator in TN gave Kathleen Sebelius today in Memphis. Hilarious! pic.twitter.com/GEmr4F26G6
— Bill Hobbs (@billhobbs) November 1, 2013

Interesting: Obamacare website may have to be rebuilt from scratch...

What happened to the serene woman?

Apparently, you can add serious security issues to the many problems the Obamacare website suffers from. Don't give this site your personal information until it is completely fixed. 

Via NY Post:

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Obamacare’s Web site, already a tangled mess, might need to be rebuilt from scratch to to protect against cyber-thieves because he fears it’s not a safe place right now for health-care consumers to deposit their personal information.
“ I know that they’ve called in another private entity to try to help with the security of it. The problem is, they may have to redesign the entire system,” Rep. Mike Rogers said on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” political talk show. “The way the system is designed, it is not secure.”
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Tweet of the Day: Obamacare Website Exposes Private Info of Healthcare Navigators

Makes you feel real good about the security of your private data, doesn't it? 

@JohnEkdahl Here's the navigators: https://t.co/VV4pow2qQW
— #Defundista (@Mermaz) October 23, 2013

Is Obama completely incompetent or is Kathleen Sebelius a liar?

 Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius claims in a CNN interview that Barack Obama didn't know there were issues with the Obamacare website until after October 1st. Either Sebelius is lying or Obama is a completely incompetent chief executive. This was a $500 billion website design project that would affect millions of Americans and was key to Obama's only accomplishment as President. Obama should have been asking about the status in weekly cabinet meetings and reading reports on the progress of the project. If Sebelius misled Obama in those meetings and reports, she should be fired. If Obama failed to have the meetings or read the reports, he should be fired. If Obama actually knew about the problems and failed to take emergency action action, he should be fired. Catastrophes like this are why the President should be someone with chief executive experience preferably in both business and government. If only someone like that had ran against Obama in 2012.

President Barack Obama didn’t know of problems with the Affordable Care Act’s website — despite insurance companies’ complaints and the site’s crashing during a test run — until days into its now well-documented abysmal launch, the nation’s health chief told CNN on Tuesday.
In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted that there is concern in her department and the White House over the technical debacle surrounding the Obamacare website rollout, saying “no one could be more frustrated than I am and the president.”
The site was supposed to make it simple for people to search and sign-up for new health care policies starting on October 1, but instead it’s been clunky and, at times, inoperable.
“We’re not at all satisfied with the workings of the website,” Sebelius said. “We want it to be smooth and easy and let consumers’ compare plans.” Keep on reading...

Denial: HHS Secretary Sebelius claims the website is functional and “we will hit the mark”

Mrs. Sebelius appears to be delusional and should be replaced...

Overall, she said, the website is functional and “we will hit the mark” within the law’s six-month open enrollment period that began Oct. 1. “I’m not throwing out the system and starting over,’” she said. …
Mrs. Sebelius convenes meetings, often three times a day, to monitor progress against the technological snafus. “I can’t fix the website myself,” she said. “But I’m working around the clock to find out what we know in extraordinary and honest detail, hold our contractors and our team accountable, and accelerate the timeline to resolve the problems.”

Meanwhile: 

Sebelius Making Time For Gala, Not Testimony Before Congress