Greg welcomes guests Joanne Nosuchinsky and Joe DeVito (and another pair of awkward glasses...)
Just the other day former White House press secretary and current MSNBC contributor Robert Gibbs stated emphatically that the problems with the federal government's online exchange have been "excruciatingly embarrassing."
"I hope they are working day and night to get this done," Gibbs said on MSNBC. "When they get it fixed, I hope they fire some people that were in charge of making sure that this thing was supposed to work."
Gibbs also questioned the White House's claim that the heavy traffic on the website is to blame for the difficulties at healthcare.gov since it opened on Oct. 1.
"This is not a server problem, like too many people came to the website — this is a website architecture problem," Gibbs said. He added, "if they don't get these glitches figured out fast, people aren't going to come back."Part of the problem, apparently, is that the software is already 10 years old!
Tech experts: Health exchange site needs total overhaul
The federal health care exchange was built using 10-year-old technology that may require constant fixes and updates for the next six months and the eventual overhaul of the entire system, technology experts told USA TODAY.
The site could be perfect, but if the systems from which it draws data are not up to speed, it doesn't matter, said John Engates, chief technology officer at Rackspace, a cloud computer service provider.
"It is a core problem in the sense of it's fundamental to this thing actually working, but it's not necessarily a problem that the people who wrote HealthCare.gov can get to," Engates said. "Even if they had a perfect system, it still won't work."
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