Huffington Magazine Issue 72 | Page 11

Enter can apply for health insurance and browse and buy affordable plans in most states, hasn’t worked as smoothly as it was supposed to work, and the number of people who’ve visited the site has been overwhelming, which has aggravated some of these underlying problems. First of all, as near as I can tell, the way the website is “supposed to work” is “it is supposed to allow people to shop for, and obtain health insurance.” Since this is not what’s currently happening, a better way of saying it hasn’t worked “smoothly” is it hasn’t worked “at all.” Also, while it’s perfectly true that sometimes a high volume of visitors can overwhelm a website and cause outages, that’s not what’s happening here. The site is having trouble seamlessly accessing various government databases to colle