We should probably be thanking them for being incompetent boobs.
Via NRO:
The day before it went live, the federal health insurance website could handle just 1,100 simultaneous users before users began encountering sluggish response times and other problems, according to a document released on Wednesday by a congressional committee.
The “ACA testing bulletin” contains notes on the results of tests run on the Healthcare.gov site betweetn September 30, the day before the site launched, and October 4. The note for September 30, entered by the federal contractor Quality Software Services Inc., reads, “Currently we are able to reach 1,100 users before responds time gets to high. CGI is making changes to configuration.” Between October 1 and October 4, the contractors at work on the site were aiming to “reach targets of up to 10,000 concurrent users in the next few days,” but even that was woefully inadequate.”