My Failed Attempt to Create An Obamacare Account: Can Site Really Be This Stupid?

October 10th, 2013 8:24 AM

Can you tell that "Bulgarian," "Sunbeam," and "Vladivostok" are different words?  Congratulations: you're smarter than the Obamacare website!  Just for fun, I tried to create an Obamacare account at Healthcare.gov this morning.  At 6:48 AM CDT, I had no trouble getting in. Things were going swimmingly . . . until it came time to choose security questions and provide answers.  

As you'll see from the screengrab, I was informed that my account could not be created because "two or more answers to the security questions cannot be the same. You must provide distinct answers to the chosen security questions."  President Obama, Secretary Sebelius, or anybody else out there, please tell me, which of the following words are the same: "Bulgarian," "Sunbeam" and "Vladivostok"? Because those are, as you'll see from the screencap after the jump, the three answers I gave.  Note: the first time I tried and failed, I supplied real answers, but for purposes of this blog, when I tried again I used fanciful ones.  Didn't want the whole world to know that my favorite cuisine is actually Indian. Oops!] More after the jump.



So yes, by all means, let's entrust control  of 1/6th of the American economy to an Obama administration that can't tell that "Bulgarian," "Sunbeam" and "Vladivostok" are distinct words!