Amazingly, the website appears to be down again! https://www.healthcare.gov/
Looks like they had planned that downtime, but I wonder how messed up this whole project must be that they can't even manage to have a static maintenance page up!
Looks like they had planned that downtime, but I wonder how messed up this whole project must be that they can't even manage to have a static maintenance page up!
1. This is already too complicated. ( why a username when you know I am going to need to use my SSN ) 2. This is not a complicated web app. I am now fully convinced that this could have been done with better results by anyone other then the government.
The fewer times you have to enter an SSN, the better. Especially as username-type data is usually shown in text on the screen, might need to be read out over the phone, is vulnerable to phishing, etc.
But it wasn't built by the government. Do you think Obama asked for a username field?
It was built by a private contractor ie. your usual capitalist, profit-oriented enterprise IT company.
It's nothing like a private company building a system. It's more like being a peasant to a lord. Sure you can do what you want, as long it's exactly what they want to you, when, where and how they want you to do it.