Untangling Obamacare's Web Glitches

The White House has released the most recent numbers on visitors to healthcare.gov -- 4.7 million unique visitors, reported Jake Tapper on Twitter (presumably, he means since the Oct. 1 launch). Other accounts put the number of visitors on the first day at2.8 million. According to Tapper, the White House claims not to know how many people have enrolled. The cynic in me wonders if that number isn't in the single digits.

No one I know has managed to create an account on the federal exchanges, as opposed to those operated by the states. Either they're stopped at a "please wait" page that never does move them onto enrollment, or they get to the enrollment page and are presented with drop-down list of security questions -- an empty drop-down list. I tried putting random words in the boxes and hit "enter," which brought me to a screen announcing that an account couldn't be created at this time. Most people, though, got stopped at the security questions. Apparently some folks got through, only to be routed back out to the beginning of the account creation process.