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Deadline Day problems with HealthCare.GOV

December 23, 2013 Posted by Frank M

Log-in to HealthCare.Gov

It’s easy to beat a dead website- to stomp around it’s 404 pages and polite apology screens. So we won’t. Except to post a screen shot from the much vilified website on deadline day, telling you to wait because “HealthCare.Gov has a lot of visitors right now!” If one didn’t want to stick around while the page refreshed it self to see if you could log in, there was an option to type in your email, and they would drop you a line as to when the coast was cleared.

Newshole[DOT]Info sat on the screen for a bit in the late afternoon, coffee in hand and obviously not much going on. We randomly got in. The apology screen turned into the actual website. We logged in and tried to hit the market place. Running pretty smoothly for a time, we were asked what exactly we planned to file income-tax wise. This thing seems be fixed! Aaaaand just as we were going to the Florida options, it crashed. At least for us.

Kill Screen. (And not the fun Donkey Kong kind.)

We are not sure what kind of creature wouldn’t expect this; the website is famous for its’ inability to handle large volumes of traffic, and today is the day the procrastinating levee breaks; the last day.

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March 26, 2013 Posted by Frank M

Frank Maradiaga (@writerfrank) tweeted at 6:52 PM on Tue, Mar 26, 2013: The view from the end of the line at the Bjarke Ingels presentation. #MiamiBeach #bjarkeingels http://t.co/fYHh3AXtg1 (https://twitter.com/writerfrank/status/316683996547383296)

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