i mean even you come up with that back up plan. i m smart. and even with the blood being drained from my forehead. pes pulsating. it is pulsating. there are spider eggs in that. the spanish language site is not up yet. you are absolutely right. i am picketing. dodo you have any comment on this that would make any sense? this is the real sad part is that we are hearing from small businesses. i am a business reporter and i know you have never seen me on the business channel. i have, in the elevator. small businesses are starting to kill coverage because obamacare is launched. now workers are finding themselves without any health care because they can t log on to these darn websites. they don t have it from their jobs and worse yet they will be fined in the beginning of the year if they don t have health insurance. now they will delay six weeks. after the corporate mandate
may indicate the number is even worse than speculated. one of the things the administration put out yesterday was they were looking for thest and brightest minds in the tech world to help them and that apparently they had reached out to verizon to help them. but we still don t know what verizon is going to be helping them with. also a kind of a sign of maybe five days out they did know that there was going to be trouble because virginia info tech company called circo had a contract for $114 million and the week before the october 1st launch, it was increased by $87 million and you know what that particular company was going to do? handle paper applications. and if the paper applications don t work out, i understand they got a back up plan with the telegraph. exactly. roll up your application and throw it in a bottle and chuck it out in the nearest body of water. maybe it will get there in time fort sign-up before you get penalized. or call 1-800-trouble. guess what happened when se
we ran a number we tested all the way up to the october 1 date. we are still testing other aspects of the system, but we got 6,000 hits on our website in the first concurrent hits on our website a minute in the first half hour that we were up. and we had a little bit of a glitch and we were able to fix it right away because we had a good back up plan. so it s not an easy thing. i think at the end of the day, the question is going to be not what happened in october, but what happened over the course of the next six months. and for i will say for us in rhode island, we took a little bit different tact than everybody else. we are focusing both on the individual access to health insurance and the small business component.
on your system like that. we ran a number we tested all the way up to the october 1 date. we are still testing other aspects of the system, but we got 6,000 hits on our website in the first concurrent hits on our website a minute in the first half hour that we were up. and we had a little bit of a glitch and we were able to fix it right away because we had a good back up plan. so it s not an easy thing. i think at the end of the day, the question is going to be not what happened in october, but what happened over the course of the next six months. and for i will say for us in rhode island, we took a little bit different tact than everybody else. we are focusing both on the individual access to health
another form. in a lot of the colleges and one of the reasons that governor brown will do. they are looking dope in the social media records of their potential student and finding them and making admission consideration based on what they are post nothing the past. he is trying to do that. there are websites that let people takedown their postings. do you think it takes away a little bit of the sting and responsibility of people thinking twois of posting and they know there is a back up plan and maybe i can get rid of this after the fact. in life we can t avoid the fact that actions have consequences. and this law is socially irresponsible and not enforceable and does not promote self responsibility of teenagers at all. if you tell anyone under 18 that