Cosmic joke?

Cosmic joke?  “Ace”, over at Ace of Spades HQ, writes about the federal ObamaCare exchange's solution to the web site overloading problem: “waiting rooms”.  I have the same reaction that he does, that any technology guy would have:

Oh dear Lord, even the website is going to have long lines for waiting.

This is a cosmic joke. This is a cosmic joke.

Imagine going to (say) Amazon's web site, and instead of getting their catalog you got a nice little page saying something like:

You are number 714,726 in line with 834,543 others.  You will be served in order, so please be patient.  Have a nice day!

Yeah, that would lead to a bunch of happy customers, I'm sure.  A commercial organization would never get away with this, because a competitor without this problem would eat their lunch.  The government, though?  Those double-chinned bureaucrats will just smile as they shove this down your throat.

Lines.  It's the standard government answer.  Like at the DMV.  Healthcare a la DMV.  Oh, goody.

Doom...