Posted on 10/25/2013 7:59:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Did you know that the Titanic had a "glitch?" Well, remember that scene in the "Titanic" movie when Rose asked the architect of the Titanic what was going to happen and he replied that it was a certainty that it would sink? Well, despite what liberals now desperately want you to believe, ObamaCare like the Titanic doesn't have a mere "glitch" that somehow can be fixed by an A-Team of software nerds. I mean almost four years ago I got rid of my then computer because it was running on 2005 software which I felt was outdated yet Team Obama the software contract to a company that designed ObamaCare to run on 2003 software. Hey, did they throw free floppy disks into the deal because, after all, the Obama Regime shelled out not a hundred million, not a half billion, but about a full billion bucks for a completely outdated system. Remember 2003? Back then what were considered advanced cell phones had crude cameras that took blurry pictures. No bluetooth yet but if you clamped a "car baby" onto your cell phone it would project the sound to your FM radio. So why was this absurd contract awarded to CGI which was already fired by the Ontario government in Canada for incompetence? Most likely we can follow the money to figure out why this contract was awarded to the highest bundler. And like the Titanic, ObamaCare is doomed to sink. Yet somehow the DUmmies, refusing to face the reality of Obamacare's utter failure, are now blaming it all on the Republicans. I kid you not as you can see in this DUmmie THREAD, "Howard Dean: 'You Gotta Blame' The GOP For Some Of Obamacare's Glitches." So let us now watch the Reality Denialists blame Republicans for ObamaCare's failure in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering when Obama will start calling it SebeliusCare, is in the [brackets]:
Howard Dean: 'You Gotta Blame' The GOP For Some Of Obamacare's Glitches
[That hair dye Howard has started using must have seeped into his brain.]
"I think the fundamental flaw was not having multiple districts and multiple bidders and multiple contractors working on this because then what you could have done if one contractor screwed up, as this one clearly has, you could actually just use a different exchange in a different region."
[Like Solyndra, the ObamaCare contract went to the highest bundler. How many millions kicked back to the Obama coffers?]
"I think it's a problem, I think the fundamental mistake that was made — well, first of all, in fairness you gotta blame the Republicans for some of this because they delayed everything they possibly could, threw as many monkey wrenches into the process as they could, and there's some success here," Dean said.
[What delays, Howard? What monkey wrenches? Or maybe you were thinking of monkey courts?]
"But the truth is, what the Obama administration should have done is divide the 36 states that are on the federal exchange up into four or five regions, do it the way the government does health care. And then put each of these regions out to bid, so you don't have one single contractor who, if they screw up, screws up the whole system, which is what's happened."
[And the Republicans prevented this how? Meanwhile everything is run on outdated, obsolete software from 2003. Explain how the Republicans caused this?]
He added that the Obama administration was forced to set up a single federal marketplace "because the Republican governors refused to accept exchanges.
[And now that looks like a very wise move.]
"The states with exchanges are doing pretty well," he said. "There's some glitches. They're not big. A lot of people are gonna be able to get their insurance in the 14 states that have their own exchanges."
[Wrong. The state ObamaCare exchanges are also disasters in Colorado and Vermont but, hey, lets blame Republicans for that as well. And now on to the Reality Denialists aka DUmmies...]
I'm glad to see the Dems fighting back strenuously against the RW noise about the ACA website.
["ACA Website?" Too embarrassed to call it ObamaCare?]
FINALLY! And let's also not forget that House Republicans refused the HHS additional funding when they were asked.
[And yet the Regime managed to overpay for the software by about 999 million dollars. What should have cost only about a million ended up costing about a billion for ridiculously outdated software.]
I 've had my suspicions about this all along, but being someone who doesn't make up facts to suit myself (unlike Right wingers!), I did not make this claim. Kudos to Governor Dean for putting this out there with the back story!
[Yup! It's absolutely the fault of Republicans that Team Obama awarded the outdated and grossly overpriced software contract to a company that had already been FIRED by the Ontario government for extreme incompetence.]
Oh I blame them alright. Wouldn't surprise me if there was more to this story, like they're paying somebody to throw a monkey wrench in there. We know how obsessively they despise Obamacare--why wouldn't they sabotage it this way?
[Yeah, the Republicans wanted to sabotage it by infecting the software with the Stuxnet virus but then figured the obsolete software would do a better job of completely destroying ObamaCare.]
.. and the contractor at fault will pay back what the gov't paid them or lose contracts, right?
[Would that be a billion dollars minus the kickback money?]
And now the House GOPers are holding hearings, OMG, with Issa leading the charge. More taxpayers money going down the drain, but alas, it will only make OBAMACARE stronger. These people live on another reality plain but have the corporate media to spew their biddings.
[Thus spake an extreme Reality Denialist. Yeah, it sure will make ObamaCare "stronger." BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!]
I know there are a lot of problems with the ACA website, but I am not sure you can count out a coordinated DOS attack by right wing nut jobs. We already know that they use bots and trolls to disrupt discourse on many news forums. I'm also sure that a large number of people were just there "kicking tires " rather than actively seeking health insurance. Also, some of the contractors may not have been giving their best in the run up to roll out due to being disheartened by the controversy and obstructionism by the GOP. If they thought that it was likely that the ACA would fail to launch, they may have seen little prospect in their work. We need to take the example of Kentucky and press our state lawmakers to institute state exchanges. No matter, the media grabs hold of the failures and never the successes.
[Oh, I get it. The 2003 software would have worked beautifully but the web developers were so demoralized by Republican criticisms that they completely lost it and wrote crappy programming.]
PING!
WASHINGTON—Responding to widespread criticism regarding its health care website, the federal government today unveiled its new, improved Obamacare program, which allows Americans to purchase health insurance after installing a software bundle contained on 35 floppy disks. “I have heard the complaints about the existing website, and I can assure you that with this revised system, finding the right health care option for you and your family is as easy as loading 35 floppy disks sequentially into your disk drive and following the onscreen prompts,” President Obama told reporters this morning, explaining that the nearly three dozen 3.5-inch diskettes contain all the data needed for individuals to enroll in the Health Insurance Marketplace, while noting that the updated Obamacare software is mouse-compatible and requires a 386 Pentium processor with at least 8 MB of system RAM to function properly. “Just fire up MS-DOS, enter ‘A:\>dir *.exe’ into the command line, and then follow the instructions to install the Obamacare batch files—it should only take four or five hours at the most. You can press F1 for help if you run into any problems. And be sure your monitor’s screen resolution is at 320 x 200 or it might not display properly.” Obama added that the federal government hopes to have a six–CD-ROM version of the program available by 2016.
its getting 2010 election night rich over there, i’ve actually seen some calling msnbc hosts right wing hacks
Impossible - like you always tell us, we are too backward to even know how to use the Internet. :)
$680 billion, three years.....doesn’t work
No testing - no BETA run - 5 million lines of bad code.....I am please to learn the conservative branch of the Republican party is that powerful to cause all these problems
Ted Cruz should submit a bill to rename ACA to the “Patient Protection, Citizens Affordable Care Act”
Otherwise known as PP CACA.
I’m so glad that they got that figured out.... *rollseyes*
The CEO AETNA has figured out that only sponges are signing up...not nearly enough suckers.
Why would anyone whose premiums and deductibles would increase dramatically sign up instead of wait?
I will not sign up. I will buy insurance as it is available outside the exchange and not pay the fine.
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Fascists just doing what they do. When their heavy handed, iron fisted, central government dictats fail, they must blame their political opponents. After the blame begins to be accepted, then it is easy to demonize and eventually the public will begin to clamor for “action.” What action will be deemed “necessary for the common good?” Punishment of course!
I am beginning to understand the Democrats’ fixation on high speed rail! All the quicker to the gulag for us evil political opponents!
I see this as a phased liberal plot
1) Promise insurance companies increased (and subsidized) customer base, to get their support. Check
2) Pass Commiecare. Check
3) Commiecare isn’t financially viable. Who knew? This launches a three prong attack:
a) Demonize doctors for charging too much, and reduce payments for services.
b) Demonize the insurance companies, and reduce their subsidy, while strong arming them into not reducing rates.
c) Demonize the ‘Rich’ for not being stupid enough to keep investing and paying the commiecare high end cap gains tax, or selling high value houses subject to commiecare tax.
4. Wait and see how they can profit from the chaos. Any three of the strawmen they’ve set up could fall...they could end up convincing the public that ‘health practicioners’ are as good as a doctor, under c-care...or maybe squeeze the profits out of insurance so much, that the insurance companies start to fold...and of course they can probably rally for more taxes.
But it all depends on getting Obamacare up and running. If all the ‘marks’ don’t participate, they can reap their political gains.
I think the CEO of AETNA has had a moment of clarity...and at all costs wants to Delay something the insurance industry initially supported.
Dean admits that Republicans delayed everything but fails to see that was a good thing.
Amazing!
AND Obama issued a NO-BID contract (Halliburton ring a bell, DUmmies!) to a company who had recent past issues with their products!
AND this company isn’t even a US company!! This President turned over the creation of a website that will be responsible for protecting the identity of millions of Americans to another country? The depth of his incompetence grows daily.
"The pained DUmmie brain lies mainly in its own reality plain..."
The Reality-Based Community has spoken.
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