Posted on 10/22/2013 7:49:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I would think a large percentage of the uninsured are people between jobs. Covering them could have been a simple case of having people on unemployment insurance automatically being eligible for Medicaid, and giving them their Medicaid card when they apply for unemployment. But that would not have justified a massive increase in government.
I write software for a living.
Something that has 5 million lines of code would take years JUST TO FIGURE OUT what it is doing, before you can fix it.
Is there documentation?
You can’t just throw more programmers at it, and they will look and say “aha! here’s your problem~!” and add a few more lines of code that fixes it..
First they have to understand what it is doing before they can fix it. This often takes longer then it took to originally write the software.
Like other multi-million dollar software disasters from the government, this will HAVE TO BE SCRAPPED. It would be cheaper to re-write it than to try to fix it.
It is like building a house. If the foundation is bad, the whole house will fall down. But if you throw more builders on the project and they add another bathroom and a new roof , it is still on a bad foundation.
Absolutely impossible for a beauracratic government entity under the political gun of a megalomaniac who considers the complex system his crowning political achievement.
He will just keep rolling heads, demanding that it work as he wants.
FYI: for ease of use, the Obamacare website has now been dubbed:
Obamaware
His “crown” is a millstone.
it’s axiomatic that the first thing you do get a non performing software program on track is to cut the number of programmers, not increase them.
Team Obama and HHS Secretary Sebelius ignored the K.I.S.S.* principle and it is now biting them.
A $600 million website is not going to adhere to that principle. For every existing problem they fix, they will create new problems that will need to be fixed. Thus, they create job security.
The question has been posed by others: who is going to pay for fixing the website? [duh! taxpayers will]
A bigger question: How much more is it going to cost to fix the website? [quite possibly, more than the original website cost — that is how government typically works]
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KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Cruz actually gave Obama a way out of this mess. That would have been agreeing to a one year delay of the mandate, to avoid the shutdown.
The website is a perfect metaphor for the law and its implementation. It will be tinkered with in the only manner its politician parents know to do: Add more layers of crap and pages of regulations to it until its size rivals the Internal Revenue code, and causes the same degree of suffering and injustice.
McAFEE: Well, here’s the problem — it’s not something software can solve. I mean, what idiot put this system out there and did not create a central depository? There should be one website, run by the government, you go to that website and then you can click on all of the agencies. This is insane. So, I will predict that the loss of income for the millions of Americans who are going to lose their identities — I mean, you can imagine some retired lady in Utah, who has $75,000 dollars in the bank, saving her whole life, having it wiped out one day because she signed up for Obamacare. And believe me, this is going to happen millions of times. This is a hacker’s wet dream. I cannot believe that they did this.
sadly and predictably, like all massive leftist leviathans, it “works” best by not working.
and like all leftist creations, it is too “big” to fail, therefore it will not be allowed to fail.
Wait just a minute. Obama said yesterday he is frustrated and angry that the website has problems and he will make it his priority to fix it. Right after he creates another 12, 000,000 jobs.
* snort *
Indeed, beautiful put. Kudos, and I may steal it for use in the anti-propaganda wars, if you have no objection.
Couldn’t resist could you? lol
Now that's funny!
So, and I’m going out on a limb here, you’re thinking the crack Verizon emergency software repair team may not be able to save Obamaware?
Also:
1)systems tend to grow, and as they grow, they encroach
2)systems display antics
3)complicated systems produce unexpected outcomes
4)the total behavior of large systems cannot be predicted
5)complex systems tends to oppose their own proper function
6)systems get in the way and the system always kick back
oh yeah, Obama has been his worst enemy...it would have been simple for him to make a few reasonable compromises in the stimulus bill, Obamacare, and taxes and draw in support from RINO's, neutralize th Tea Party, and improve his presidential performance. He couldn't do it...not even once.
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