Processing errors create even more problems

Alexis Simendinger on RealClearPolitics reports:

[HHS Secretary Sebelius] also noted that early applications launched on the wobbly site got stuck, were incomplete or in error, and the government is trying to sort out what to do with thousands of such attempts. That problem is unlikely to be resolved by next week.

I predicted this phenomenon in an earlier blog post:

And, oh yeah. If the exchanges try to go on line in spite of poorly functioning systems, the complexity of the problem will only grow, since not only will the buggy systems still need to be fixed, but also the processing errors made by the buggy systems will subsequently have to be corrected, too.