Americans are divided about whether the problems associated with the health-care law’s federal website are a short-term issue than can be solved, or a long-term issue that signals deeper troubles, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Thirty-seven percent of respondents say that the website woes are a short-term technical problem that can be fixed, while 31 percent believe they point to a longer-term issue with the law’s design that can’t be corrected.
Another 30 percent think it’s too soon to say.
What an idiotic survey.
The 31% who say "the law’s design that can’t be corrected" aren't saying anything about the fucking website; they're complaining about the Obamacare demon that haunts their imaginations.
And neither they, nor the 37% who say it will be fixed, know a thing about what the site's actual technical problems are, let alone what fixing them will require. No, this is nothing more than a "Do you like Obamacare?" survey.
And $100 says no more than 0.01% of the people surveyed know even what an HTML form is, let alone how to write one.
On the other hand, it's pretty surreal to watch a program roll-out being called play-by-play by our ignorant and scandal-hungry media. They have utterly no idea what they're talking about, but they don't care. Gotta fill up those news-hours. Gotta feed the hysteria mills.
Does Obamacare require insurers to cover excess ranting?
Well. Having spent some time as an “IT expert” I think that the problem with the rollout is a badly designed database. Apparently the designers had no idea of the scale that would be necessary. That said, of course it can be fixed. Call in the Google!
Even the commenters who do know squat about computers, don’t know much more than squat about the website in question. What platform is it running on? How many servers do they have? What database are they using? How are the queries structured? You don’t figure these kinds of things out just by looking at the HTML source, and I doubt many people voicing their opinions have even done that.
(By the way, Jakob Nielsen did a pretty good critique of the front-end account setup process.)