'Cash for Clunkers' as prologue to Healthcare.gov nightmare

'Cash for Clunkers' as prologue to Healthcare.gov nightmare: George Will | OregonLive.com:
"Cash for Clunkers lasted 55 days and ended with confusion that was a preview of things to come.
The New York Times (Aug. 1, 2009) explained the final surge of demand for clunker funds:

"Around the country, dealers had put off the laborious task of applying for the rebates ... which requires entering the 17-character identification numbers of each vehicle to be scrapped, scanning images of proof of insurance and filling out other paperwork.
The computer system was overloaded, according to the dealers. 
They said they would finish one page in the application, hit Enter and nothing would happen. 
Eventually a message would appear notifying the dealer that the page had 'timed out.' Tom Frew, the business manager at Galpin Motors in Los Angeles, said that he needed 35 tries to register just one of the company's 11 dealerships on the day that the program opened because of problems with the government website. 
On Friday, he spent an hour processing just one rebate application, he said.""