HealthCare.gov has “99 problems, but a glitch is all of them,” according to comedian Jon Stewart.
In a segment on Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show, the host mocked the website for its massive failures, some of them as simple as logging on and using the calculator.
“The f***ing calculator doesn’t work?!” Stewart exclaimed. “The one thing that’s been included in computers since 1972? You couldn’t make that work!?”
The host laughed at the healthcare signup success rate of 10 percent — which is even less than the number of people who incorrectly believe Obamacare has been repealed.
“The whole point of websites is to design them so that it’s nearly impossible to not sign up for something,” Stewart said. “Every time I go on Amazon there’s a 40 percent chance that I’ll mistakenly overnight myself six season of Night Court.”
Stewart even deemed President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act press conference on Monday as pathetic, comparing the POTUS to the Gil the salesman from The Simpsons. And the press conference itself was marred by a clear lack of planning, as a diabetic pregnant woman standing behind the President nearly fainted.
And when Daily Show correspondent John Oliver tried to sign up for healthcare through the online exchange, he was sucked into the computer — where he discovered that the code was written with 4s and 5s, instead of 1s and 0s.
“How old is this software?!” Oliver asks as Pacman begins chasing him across the screen.
Watch the segment below. Caution: Part of it is NSFW.
