# If you were thinking about using Healthcare.gov - DON'T YET **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 7, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-thinking-about-using-healthcare-gov-dont-yet/670552 "2013-10-07T01:00:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-thinking-about-using-healthcare-gov-dont-yet/670552/20 "2013-10-09T03:13:54Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > I’m all for the ACA. Thrilled about it. Want to marry it, etc. I’ve been reading about the website problems the OP mentions, too, though. I gave up when I couldn’t create an account after multiple attempts. Maybe it’s a good idea to wait a few weeks until they debug the thing. I could be wrong, but based on my own experience, when a project starts off this poorly, it was not ready to go live and the fix usually takes much longer than a few weeks. The typical pattern is to get into fire fighting mode and start creating bandaids to get past critical problems, but that consumes your time leaving little time to fix the actual problem. As you get past the first wave of problems, the users begin using different parts of the system creating new issues. I’ve seen things like this drag out for many months or even a year. If there is a fundamental design flaw, portions of the system could just be turned off and handled manually/semi-automatically behind the scenes. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-thinking-about-using-healthcare-gov-dont-yet/670552)._