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Health Exchanges Need A Fail Whale

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STIX ID: report--a545c11e-f358-5fee-a925-20d27b2b0b86

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Date Published: 2013-10-03

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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This article reviews the launch-day outages of Healthcare.gov and various state health exchanges, attributing failures to overwhelming user traffic, inadequate bandwidth and backend scaling, and poor capacity planning rather than malicious activity or security exploitation.

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