The frustration level hit its height last week on the two fronts of health care and higher ed. Since it’s unveiling, the Affordable Care Act’s website has been an absolute nightmare. And even the folks at CommonApp.org were experiencing buggy website glitches where some schools like Georgia Tech moved back their early admission deadline to this week.
Common app has no excuse.
How can a website whose only excuse to exist is convenience suddenly become inconvenient?
Same with the government’s new health care site. It’s only reason for being is the digital ease.
The ACA’s web “glitches” are now officially “kinks,” according to President Obama’s Monday media event at the Rose Garden. But the whole thing has given the president’s opponents a major talking point—even though a sick website is nothing compared to a sick health care system that will be better under the ACA.
The president said the site did have 20 million hits, that proves there’s a demand for affordable care. And it’s true, people want a better health care system, not a better website, and that’s what Obama concentrated on in his Monday remarks.
So far, some software experts have estimated it may take some 5 million lines of code to make the website do everything you expect it do like modern magic.
