Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services was touting the Obamacare data hub as one of the “success stories” of the launch so far. HHS also referred to the data hub as the “backbone” of the health insurance marketplace.
Our latest tech update is now live. Today's post, more about the Data Services Hub. The good news? It's working well: http://t.co/n39o6xvLTi
— Kathleen Sebelius (@SecSebelius) October 26, 2013
The Data Services Hub is the backbone of the Health Insurance Marketplace & it's working well. What is it? MORE: http://t.co/VeDjzklbAM
— HHS.gov (@HHSGov) October 26, 2013
Sebelius finds a silver lining in Obamacare 'data hub' http://t.co/Y91oZJAbTB
— Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) October 26, 2013
Guess how long that “good news” lasted?
That was yesterday, this is today:
The federal data services hub is currently experiencing an outage, but you can still compare prices & create an account at @AccessHealthCT
— Access Health CT (@AccessHealthCT) October 27, 2013
Ha! Oh well, a “backbone” isn’t an important part, is it?
Access Health says fed data hub outage means people can't complete applications for subsidized coverage for now http://t.co/JDzPzGCx5f #ACA
— Arielle Levin Becker (@ariellelb) October 27, 2013
http://t.co/Aj8KbtIutE application and enrollment system down bc company that hosts site has an outage. Terremark working to fix ASAP
— Joanne Peters (@JoannePtrs) October 27, 2013
You can’t make this stuff up.
Just yesterday, the Obama Administration touted the data hub as "What's Working" http://t.co/S1VNhXRYxc
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) October 27, 2013
Sebelius highlights data hub success: http://t.co/swgy3RKhoo Data hub now down: http://t.co/K3yY3nFaK3
— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) October 27, 2013
As we’ve said before, if laughter is indeed the best medicine, that’s at least one part of Obamacare that’s delivering.
Update:
HHS says Secretary Sebelius spoke with CEO of Verizon today about ongoing http://t.co/25y1SOfdCF data center outage
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) October 28, 2013
The list of “what’s working” continues to get much shorter.
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