Obamacare Health Exchange Websites Had More Than 10 Million Unique Visitors On Day One

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Reuters) - The online health insurance exchanges at the heart of President Barack Obama's healthcare law opened for business on October 1, although technical glitches stalled the launch in many states.

Here are some first day statistics reported by the exchanges, states and the federal government:

* About 2.8 million people visited healthcare.gov - the main website for the 36 state exchanges being run by the federal government - between midnight and mid-afternoon, theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services said.

* NY State of Health, New York state's exchange, reported 7.5 million website visits by mid-afternoon.


http://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-exchange-website-2013-10#ixzz2gdErdU00

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1. I'm going on day 3 of trying to register/log in to the fed exchange.

Error after error.

It ain't like nobody could have imagined a flood of people to the site. Google and Amazon seem to cope ok. Banking sites. All kinds of sites handle well over 2.8 million hits a day. No excuse for it still being inaccessible. Not a good start.

That was on the Fed site, 2.8 mil hits on day 1, according to your OP.

Bigger questions are, how many actually got through to see plans and prices, and how many of those actually signed up.

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4. I just tried again in the "off-peak"

per suggestions. Approx 1 am eastern. The site was much faster to access and quite zippy, but the problem still persists with the empty confirmation emails that contain no validation url.

So still no valid account. It's a bug, not a browser problem. I can see in the page source of the email that there's nothing there but a header and an empty body, as with yesterday and this morning when there were much heavier waits and loads.

Good point on the bigger question. People are rightfully jazzed at the reports of the huge interest as translated in the traffic, but there aren't many numbers about successful enrollments so far.

"Some" were able to enroll is all we can know.

Despite widespread problems with the state and federal exchanges, though, Tavenner said that some consumers did succeed.

“We can confirm that people have enrolled through the state marketplace and the federally facilitated marketplace,’’ she said.

But Tavenner wouldn’t divulge how many consumers had created accounts or enrolled on the first day.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/01/3662645/health-insurance-marketplace-plagued.html

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2. Tried twice today, nothing.

Still nothing. We can build a giant NSA server farm in Utah but we can't handle web traffic? What did they expect?

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3. I saw a couple of ridiculous complaints on FB

From one of the young idiots who refuses to buy insurance...

"I would die a horrible death of the worst disease imaginable rather than submit to Barrycare. I'll stick with what I have."

What he has falls under the ACA, but since he is clearly an idiot there's no point explaining.

Someone else complained that his rates went up, not realizing that the point is that he can tell them to shove it and look for another plan. He said Obama lied when he said he could keep what he had. For a republican, he is pretty clueless when it comes to markets, capitalism, and competition. Obviously he can keep it if he wants to pay what they are demanding.

There was also the standard complaint about the servers, and few FOX talking points. etc.

People are just drunk on propaganda and completely stupid over this.