“Days before the launch of President Obama’s online health insurance marketplace, government officials and contractors tested a key part of the Web site to see whether it could handle tens of thousands of consumers at the same time. It crashed after a simulation in which just a few hundred people tried to log on simultaneously,” the Washington Post reports.
“Despite the failed test, federal health officials plowed ahead.”
The Week: Bungled website hasn’t changed opinions of Obamacare.

