After the vague promises of help from a tech surge, it was refreshing to find two real solutions for the disaster at healthcare.gov. Both of these ideas blow away the lame excuses that President Obama gave Monday at his weak press conference about the failure of healthcare.gov.
The president mentioned that old-fashioned approaches to signing up for health insurance work – even if the web site for shopping for health insurance doesn’t. People can call or visit healthcare navigators in person to get signed up. The Onion has another old tech solution — floppies:
“I have heard the complaints about the existing website, and I can assure you that with this revised system, finding the right health care option for you and your family is as easy as loading 35 floppy disks sequentially into your disk drive and following the onscreen prompts,” President Obama told reporters this morning, explaining that the nearly three dozen 3.5-inch diskettes contain all the data needed for individuals to enroll in the Health Insurance Marketplace, while noting that the updated Obamacare software is mouse-compatible and requires a 386 Pentium processor with at least 8 MB of system RAM to function properly.
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There will be some people who will insist on using the web site, so Obama should bring a real expert: Edward Snowden. There is not a piece of software or web site that he can’t get into and check out. Thank goodness we’ve got people like Andy Borowitz coming up with real world solutions like these:
Speaking from an undisclosed location in Russia, Mr. Snowden said he hacked the Web site over the weekend and thinks he is ‘pretty sure what the problem is.’
Mr. Snowden said that if an immunity deal can be worked out, ‘I can get to work on this thing right away – I don’t need a password.’
In addition to full immunity, Mr. Snowden said he is requesting that he be allowed to work from home.
