It seems the government's Heathcare.gov website is in working order as over 2 million people visited the site on Monday and Tuesday, and nothing terrible happened. The idea to move the Healthcare.gov from Verizon to HP servers might have paid off, along with the recent fixes. This number almost doubles the site's overall traffic, which could be a sign that the marketplace might just work after all.
Julie Bataille, communications director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, says, "Healthcare.gov remains stable,"
Furthermore, we understand the team that has been fixing the problems with the website since the first of October, has added the ability for users to reset their Healthcare application and start over completely. In addition, users who have encountered the infamous "Prison Glitch," where the application insists that they specify if whether or not they were ever incarcerated before, even if they haven't, can now have a complete fresh start, which is quite welcoming.
When it comes down to error rates, which has a lot to do with the time it takes a user to visit another page, is down to 0.6 percent. Furthermore, response time is down to 630 milliseconds. Strangely enough, an independent analyst has reported higher response times.
A recent Reuters report also claims that more people signed up to Healthcare.gov on Sunday and Monday, which is a higher number when compared to the entire month of October. It is clear that the government is slowly getting things in order, but problems still persist, and it will take some time before all the kinks are ironed out completely. What matters most right now is that users have the ability to choose a healthcare package and enroll in it via the website.
Still, there are some folks who are having problems signing up for Medicaid, according to a report by the Washington Post.
"This new, transitional opportunity for states to enroll individuals assessed or determined eligible by the [exchange] using the information provided through the AT flat files will ensure that enrollment can be completed in a timely way without regard to temporary file transfer system issues at either the federal or state level," Cindy Mann, director of the Center for Medicaid.
