1. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/16/exchanges-two-weeks-in/2989723/
2. Category of Problem/Issue identified in article: Health/Medical
3. Level of problem/issue: National
4. An “enacted” policy that has been passed to help with a problem/issue that individuals/families face
5. Why this is important to individuals/families OR How does this affect individuals/families:
This is important to individuals and families because it affects whether they can sign up for health care or not. It affects those trying to set up on the health care website because of the glitches.
6. What are your views on the issue/policy?
Barely two weeks into the opening of the federal health care website and there are still major problems with the glitches. My view is that they should maybe shut it down for a while to try to fix it, rather than keep it running and try to fix it at the same time. Maybe after they think they have fixed it, they can do a test run to make sure it is up to par. Out of the 9,470,000 who have visited healthcare.gov in the first week of operation, only 36,000 made it to the enrollment page. I don't think that there should be this many glitches. President Obama stated, "I am the first to acknowledge the website that was supposed to do this all in a seamless way has had way more glitches than I think are acceptable, and we've got people working around the clock to do that." Dan Schuyler said that the easy pieces of code are most not likely causing the problem. Schuyler is worried that the problem could be more complex, such as verifying identities and other parts of signing up. Another part of this problem is that the HHS had to wait until all states had decided whether they were going to have their exchanges before the federal government could bring and test their program. Pauly, who was a member of the first Bush administration commented, "I'll state the obvious, It's going to take some time." Let's hope we can see some improvement in the glitches soon.
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