The upshot is like the old Chevy Chase line from SNL.

I’M CMS AND YOU’RE NOT

Except there is no humor in this . . 

Here is the abridged version with a link at the end to the actual news report.

The new site will be live by 9/2/2019

It has NOT been thoroughly vetted . . . if at all.

CMS declined to answer questions during a pre-launch webinar

There is insufficient time to train on the new site before the old one is shelved . . . which will occur at the end of September.

Everyone, including CMS, agrees the current site is flawed.

But they are moving forward any way . . .

Editorial comment - When healthcare.gov rolled out DC had been working on it for 5 years.

It was virtually useless, had MAJOR security flaws, and impossible to navigate unless you were trained.

Healthcare.gov required visitors to create an account BEFORE they could see plans and rates. They eventually did away with this but that came many months later.

There were approximately 20 million people seeking information on plan options. Contrast that with over 50 million who will be using the site during a 9 week period.

What could possibly go wrong?

Healthcare.gov was miserably broken out of the gate and was “closed” for several hours at a time while they tried to patch it.

As recently as 2018 healthcare.gov was hacked, again, exposing private data on 75,000 people.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/20/politics/healthcare-gov-computer-system-hack/index.html

It has been hacked NUMEROUS times since it went public.

Surely you can’t be serious?

I am serious and don’t call me Shirley . . .