President Obama told Americans Tuesday to expect months of "glitches" with the launch of the Affordable Care Act exchanges. So far, the exchanges have delivered.
Users who tried logging onto the online exchange systems Tuesday morning experienced all manner of difficulties:
1. System outages
error messages already..just hours after ObamaCare exchanges went live..here are 2 of them: pic.twitter.com/4cquKqZGkv
— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) October 1, 2013
2. More system outages
3. A broken "live chat" feature
Tried to get some help from the "Live Chat" #ObamaCare exchange feature. System is down. So much for that. #wiright
— briansikma (@briansikma) October 1, 2013
The Illinois #ObamaCare exchange is down. Live chat is dead. Estimated wait time on 800 number is 20 minutes. #twill pic.twitter.com/30fbSVPHLA
— Kristina Rasmussen (@kmrasmussen) October 1, 2013
4. Broken forms
The Washing Examiner's Charlie Spiering experienced immense difficulties trying to create an account through the exchanges.
5. Broken drop-down menus on working forms
Here was the security questions page without working drop down boxes: pic.twitter.com/fPmuYA2Nxo
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) October 1, 2013