Just 1% of Healthcare.gov Visitors Successfully Enrolled in Obamacare
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An astonishing number of visitors to Healthcare.gov did not enroll in Obamacare, according to the Compete, a web traffic analysis service.
In an article examining the glitch-prone website, Compete reported that “just 36,000 consumers, or 1% of all those who attempted to register for the federal exchange, successfully enrolled in Obamacare.”
Here are a few people who tried, with no avail, to access the site:
Just for giggles I tried to get on to the federal exchange website just now… What a surprise I couldn’t get on #Obamacare #EpicFail
— Tessa M. Harper (@TessaHarper2) October 14, 2013
obamacare: Have tried now 23 times to get into http://t.co/sxEk6Qly3J since it went online and can’t! It will … http://t.co/jsbiaqGM0Q — Gripe (@CLrantsandraves) October 14, 2013
Tried to get my #Obamacare quote today. This has been going on for over an hour. I love this. pic.twitter.com/99aZm89dZv — John Carter (@Carter600John) October 11, 2013
Tried to sign up for Obamacare, got two major errors. In real world people would get fired for such a massive release #FAIL — Rabbi Josh Yuter (@JYuter) October 1, 2013
Compete’s report concluded, “Healthcare.gov was clearly unprepared to handle the huge spike in traffic witnessed on October 1st when it was visited by .9% (or 1 in 114) of everyone online in the U.S. This is roughly equivalent to the daily traffic on Target.com.”
Luke Chung, an online database builder, told CBS, “I would be ashamed and embarrassed if my organization delivered something like that.”
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