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Re:Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the req... by darkarmani on Monday October 21, 2013 @12:03PM (#6586384)
> the interface kept asking me to reenter the information for our dependents. Farther on in the process it doubled the number of our children (to 6!) Even though it listed our children’s names twice (identically) and even though these clones had identical SS numbers, the validation software was not smart enough to realize that the duplicate records were describing the same people!

This didn't happen? Are you suggesting he made this whole story up?

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Re:Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the req... by sp332 on Monday October 21, 2013 @01:43PM (#6587038)
The article, as the headline states, is about poor requirements dooming the project.
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