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Obamacare So Popular In New York That Website Crashes
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John Del Signore
Published Oct 1, 2013
Modified Oct 1, 2013
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In their rush to choose their own bespoke Obama Death Panel, liberal New Yorkers have crashed the website for the New York Health Benefit Exchange on the first day of insurance enrollment under the Affordable Health Care Act. Say, what's the Affordable Health Care Act? Oh, just a fancy city-slicker word for Obamacare. Don't feel bad if you don't know the difference; you're not alone:
"Due to overwhelming interest in the NY State of Health — including 2 million visits in the first 2 hours of the site launch — the health exchange is currently having log in issues,” the New York Health Benefit Exchange website announced this morning. "With a website providing so much data to so many people, we are working through these growing pains and are confident users will have better access to the site shortly."
The log-in page appears to be fitfully working now (THANKS OBAMA!... No seriously, thank you.) but until a few minutes ago we were getting this error message:
Error 500: org.springframework.core.task.TaskRejectedException: Executor [java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@b8066e81] did not accept task: org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1@b7e8c86c
"Pool Executor"?! Isn't that interesting... Skip ahead to the 20 second mark to see what's in store if the Senator Cruz doesn't stop Obama from turning America INTO FRANCE:
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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