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many argue that you had money months to get it booted up and perfect it. why still so many problems? we went through a testing period and during the testing period create a punch list and fix those things. the president said from the beginning with a site like this there are going to be glitches. we had 250,000 concurrent users at one time. just for perspective, medicare.gov in a given month has 5 million unique visitors. this in the first three days had 8.6 million unique visitors which speaks to the demand. reporter: was there a design flaw? one independent expert who designs websites for major corpses had his engineers analyze health care.gov and he said it doesn t work at the most basic levels. just from the highest level looking at the code on the website, it was to be honest with you pretty sloppy. there was still test code in there. there was a number of times that the website would have to go
with a site like this, of course there will be glitches. let s understand why there was the initial problem. we have 250,000 concurrent users at one time. just for perspective, medicare.gov has 5 million unique visitors. this in the first few days had 8.6 million unique visitors. how much did it cost to pay the contractor to set up this website? i ll refer you back to reporter: was it over $100 million. i refer you to them for the numbers. reporter: he haven t been able to get hard numbers. according to a budget report, they paid $90 million through august of this year. then there s the potential cybersecurity threat. mike rodgers says with all the personal information like your social security number, tax information and other data you ll have to put into this health care database. it s a magnet for hackers, he
it is not acceptable which is why they are working across the clock both with hardware and with software. reporter: but many argued you had many months to get this booted up and to really perfect it. why then still so many problems? we went through a testing period and during the testing period to identify problems and create a punch list and fix those things. the president said from the beginning with a site like this, of course, there would be glitches but let s understand why there was the initial problem. we had 250,000 concurrent users at one time. i mean, just from perspective, medicare.gov in a given month has 5 million unique visitors. this in one day had 8.6 million visitors which speaks to the ganed. reporter: was there a design flaw? one independent russ reeder had his engineers analyze healthcare.gov. he says it doesn t work at the most basic levels. just from the highest level looking at the code on the website it was to be honest with