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We can also bank on the fact that the blame will continue to be directed toward Bush, Cruz, the Tea party, bitter clingers, etc - basically anyone but the real problem...
Just like government’s attempts to manage other complex systems: banking/finance, human welfare, the space program (often thought of as a success, but instead a massive failure and misallocation of capital that helped people to believe not in America, but big government programs).
I hope it continues to fail miserably
I feel like a Jew in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe who has been told the trains are not working....
Who is John Gall?
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FYI: for ease of use, the Obamacare website has now been dubbed:
Obamaware
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I have posted Gall’s Law on several threads. His work on systems (The Systems Bible, 3rd edition of Systemantics) is a must read for anybody that does IT work or is involved in project management.
As we will soon see, complicated systems produce unexpected outcomes.
Other than being government and wanting to spend new money, they would have been better off taking the online Medicare/Medicare Advantage program and modifying it. It works.
The Medicare/Medicare Advantage website provides for county and state variations in the Medicare program, and it has been active, with annual modifications, for at least half-a-decade.
Corollary to Galls Theorem - A complex government system that does not work is usually based on a simple private system that works.
Eg. Welfare. Private Charities take $100,000 and spend over $80,000 to $90,000 of it helping people to improve their lives and get training and jobs...
Government took over and for $100,000 it keeps $70,000 for itself and uses $30,000 to pay people to do nothing.
With the total failure of the sign up process imagine the same ineptitude when the system is running and supposed to be providing health insurance coverage for most of the country. Who in their right mind would trust their healthcare to these clowns?
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.
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.