'Pulling Out Hair' Over Obamacare 'Nightmare'

$634 million spent to build ‘digital equivalent of a rock’

WND

Forget, for a minute, all those arguments about the new health-care law’s “death panels,” the forced cancellation of existing coverage, the violations of religious liberty and the transformation of full-time jobs into part-time work.

Even people who want to sign up for Obamacare are finding it impossible.

Digital Trends reports the Healthcare.gov website already has “shut down, crapped out, stalled, and mis-loaded so consistently that its track record for failure is challenged only by Congress.”

That’s even though taxpayers paid “more than $634 million” for “the digital equivalent of a rock,” the report said.

“The site itself, which apparently underwent major code renovations over the weekend, still rejects user logins, fails to load drop-down menus and other crucial components for users that successfully gain entrance, and otherwise prevents uninsured Americans in the 36 states it serves from purchasing healthcare at competitive rates – Healthcare.gov’s primary purpose,” the report said.

According to the Washington Post, the site is so bad that as of two days ago, the number of people that successfully purchased health care through it was in the single digits.

“How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn’t work?” asked House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

The El Paso Times reported that major insurers, state health care officials and even Democratic allies of the Obama administration repeatedly had warned that there were “significant problems.”

“Despite those warnings and intense criticism from Republicans, the White House proceeded with an Oct. launch. A week after the federal website opened, technical problems continued to plague the system, and on Tuesday people were locked out until 10 a.m.,” the report said.

Fox News quoted computer software experts who said the problems were unlikely to be resolved any time soon.

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