David Blumenthal, the President of the
Commonwealth Fund, said in his blog
last week, that HealthCare.gov
received 14.6 million visits by October 11.
Blumenthal predicted that millions of people will be enrolled before President Obama's term is over. "...the 15 states that
are running their own marketplaces, some with considerable success, will
probably have enrolled millions of previously uninsured Americans in
Medicaid or private health insurance plans. State-run marketplaces account for
half of the nearly 500,000 individuals who have already completed applications.
We learned last week that Oregon has already cut the number of its uninsured by
10 percent. In the first five days, California created over 43,000 accounts and
recorded nearly 1 million website visits. New York had received 80,000 applications
by October 11. Kentucky had created 29,350 accounts by October 10."
I say to myself..." I should be the developer of such a failure of a website!"
Don't you think it's worth reconsidering this unmitigated
"failure to launch", the Republic-labeled societal
disaster perhaps only rivaled by Johnson's creation of a safety net for all Americans, or "Obama's
Iraq" (never was liking Tweets? read AnaMarieCox's
(The Guardian) counter to the stupid twitter guy).
Open enrollment and Healthcare.gov, even in
its tortured debut, has gotten more people to seek out health insurance than
CGI or CMS every imagined. And how do those two behemoths explain their utter lack of imagination, their blindness – in not appreciating, anticipating the state of desperation and desire so many people
live with. (You might find Paul Waldman's piece "Healthcare.gov2:
The Contractors Search for More Money" (10/28/13) on The American Prospect insightful about how the
federal contracting process was exceptionally ill-suited for the ACA website
job.
14.6 million hits after only 10 days live, and
with countless thousands trying but not succeeding in getting through to enroll.
It got me to thinking of what that number feels like on the
grid. So here is my homegrown site hit
statistics (my “sources” google and quantcast J
) Note these are international stats.
Google 196 million per month
Youtube 181 million per month
Amazon 80 million per month
Ebay 65+ million per month
Yelp 65+
million per month
Wikipedia 52 million per month
Weather.com 29 million per month
Craigslist 40.8 million per
month
Walmart 24
million per month
Target 13.5
million per month
Bizrate 12
million per month
Fandango 10
million per month
Fedex 10
million per month
Tripadvisor 9 million per month
Jcpenny 8
million per month
Verizon 5
million per month
Zappos 4.4
million per month
Simplyrecipes 7
million per month
Staples 6
million per month
Costco 5
million per month
NPR 4.5
million per month
Angie’s list 4
million per month
Travelzoo 3.5
million per month
Toysrus 3
million per month
CDC 3
million per month
VA 2.6
million per month
Rush Limbaugh 1.5
million per month
14 million people and rising. I should only be that lucky.
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