Healthcare.gov a Conspiracy?

Would you say that problems citizens are having accessing the healthcare.gov website are a conspiracy?

Since the launch of the website on October 1st, 2013 the technical issues which halt citizens from successfully completing their application for healthcare are still present, nearly a month later. It amazes me that this highly anticipated debut of the the websites opening was not prepared for.

At a recent press conference, Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service stated, "I want to apologize to you that the website has not worked as well as it should." (Alonso-Zaldivar)

 I completely understand that there are high traffic volumes on the website, due to citizens trying to access the database to join the American bandwagon for healthcare. Yet, is this issue so supreme that our "oh, so powerful" American Government can't solve it?

Could Republicans have sabotaged President Obama's, www.healthcare.gov?

In the mornings during my commute to work, I tune into 89.3 NPR. A heavy discussion that surfaces every morning  is about the effectiveness of the healthcare.gov website. Republicans have made attacking statements towards President Obama's healthcare agenda.

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Obama's healthcare legislation passed through all checks and balances, and was approved by the Supreme Court, and although the bill was made a Law, Republicans were consistently trying to stop the legislation that was already in place. The Affordable Care Act is a law, and despite this fact, republicans attempted to bully the law out of legislation. As a result of the battle to reverse The Affordable Care Act, the Government was shut down. this shows that there is no avail or preference for the american people in the eyes of republicans. This also shows that there is nothing that the republicans wouldn't do in order to have things in their favor.

I believe that the conservative party has ties in the implication and construction of the healthcare.gov website. The United States is a world class leader in intelligence and technology. Although technology is not always 100% reliable, the technical advances that the United States has can make a task such as implementing and contracting a website that allows  access to healthcare services for United States citizens a very minuscule task.

A government contracting company, CGI warned the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services of potential issues and risks with the operation of the website.

"The firm, which was responsible for both contracting key elements of the sites and helping interweave them, cautioned that "hub services are intermittently unavailable" and the time allotted for testing was "not adequate to complete full functional, system, and integration testing activities." They rated problems as "nearly certainty" and "highly likely" and rated the impact as "significant" or "severe." (Eilperin)

If the battle to implement new healthcare reform was so brute as to have our government shut down, isn't it ironic that after the battle was lost for the conservative party they now fight for a new cause. Republicans are in a uproar because citizens can't access healthcare.gov, a site that Republicans had our government shutdown in effort to stop.

I am convinced that Republicans knew all along that the new healthcare reform would be beneficial to citizens. Thus, they are continuing to make it seem like the Democratic party do not have citizens best interest in mind and that the entire healthcare act is flawed.

Works Cited:

Alonso-Zaldivar, Ricardo. "Medicare chief apologizes for 'Obamacare' website woes." Los Angeles

Daily News. N.p., 29 Oct 2013. Web. 31 Oct 2013. <http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20131029/medicare-chief-apologizes-for-obamacare-website-woes>.

Eilperin, Juliet. "CGI warned of HealthCare.gov problems a month before launch, documents show." 

Post Politics. The Washington Post, 29 Oct 2013. Web. 31 Oct. 2013.

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10/29/cgi-warned-of-heatlhcare-gov-problems-a-month-before-launch-documents-show/>.