Healthcare Website Still Improving

“As the Obama administration’s weekend deadline for a smoothly functioning online marketplace for health insurance arrives, more than a month of frantic repair work is paying off with fewer crashes and error messages and speedier loading of pages,” the New York Times reports.

“But specialists said weeks of additional work lie ahead, including a major reconfiguration of the computer hardware, if the $630 million site, Healthcare.gov, is to accommodate the expected flood of people seeking to buy health insurance. Without the additional changes, experts predict, the website may continue to crash during periods of peak use.”

Washington Post: “Officials are preparing to say Sunday that they have met their deadline for improving the website, in part by expanding its capacity so that it can handle 50,000 users at once. But other goals remain.”

However, the Wall Street Journal says the site still has problems with its “ability to verify users’ identities and transmit accurate enrollment
data to insurers, officials say. The data center that supports the site
faces continuing challenges, and tools for processing payments to
insurers haven’t been built.”