In another indication of the Obama Administration's Obamacare or Bust attitude the Washington Post is reporting that day's before the exchange marketplace website opened, officials and tech contractors, tested the site to see if it could handle the expected tens of thousands of consumers who will be vising the site.
It crashed after a simulation in which just a few hundred people tried to log on simultaneously.

Despite the failed test, federal health officials plowed ahead.
Shortly after midnight on October 1st, the day the site went live, about 2,000 consumers tried to complete the first step toward registering for the site causing the site to freeze.

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