Posted on 10/28/2013 9:53:26 PM PDT by Lmo56
The big news out of Washington in the past 24 hours is that the Healthcare.gov website has been turned over to one of the project contractors, and that Healthcare.gov will be up and working by the end of November – which is to say, in five (5) weeks.
Jeffrey Zients, a former top White House official pulled back into government to lead a so-called “Tech Surge” to fix the Obamacare enrollment website, told reporters Friday that the site will be fully functional by the end of next month.
“By the end of November, HealthCare.gov will work smoothly for the vast majority of users,” Zients said. [Snip]
Despite widespread problems with the portal, Zients said the website can be improved from its existing foundations.
“Let me be clear: HealthCare.gov is fixable,” Zients said.
Color me dubious.
Roughly a decade ago, I was brought into a Fortune 50 corporation for a large-scale IT project review. Said project, under development by the corporation itself as well as two major outside contractors, was originally supposed to have taken 2 years and cost $180 million; when I came in, it had been going for 4 years and had reportedly cost over $500 million to date. I led a team of three other consultants, and our (original) mandate was simple: figure out the minimum quality assurance (QA) activities necessary — including, though not limited to, testing — to get the system into production. Sound familiar?
Here’s the key point: that review — just the review, not any actual testing, coding, etc. — took three months. Not three weeks, but three months.
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Driven by bureaucrats, not by programmers or even by accountants.
Unicorns will fly before this website does (methinks).
It ain’t gonna’ work, but that isn’t the biggest problem. The biggest problem is Obama has a product nobody wants. Once the initial thrill of getting something free gets clobbered by sticker shock, people want out. Democrats, all on their own, created a really crappy product, and they are going to force us to buy it, at more than twice the price we could get good insurance the old fashioned way, through the free market.
I look forward to the secondary explosions at the end of November, may they be more spectacular than the first.
Not long ago, the media was bashing Cruz for ‘shutting down the government over 0bamacare’ now they dare not remind people how much of a visionary he was. LOL
Just like Obama never said, "If you like your health care plan you can keep it."
When it doesn’t work at the end of November almost all the blame will be directed towards Republicans. Mark my words. The rest of the blame will be directed towards George W Bush.
We don’t want this to work, ever. Because if it works, families are going to get creamed financially.
He’s a “HOPER.”
So, they'll have 31 days, including the Christmas holiday to sign up 7 million people.
Well, they had 15 million dead voters for obama, so anything is possible. Damn walkers...
They are going to construct a phony website that will only appear to allow you to sign up for health insurance. It will go through the motions but not actually provide the insurance. People won't find that out until they actually need to see a doctor so the White Hut and the Corporate Media will have time to put out propaganda that they were able to get the website working despite those nasty Tea Partiers.
Its not reality that they care about, its the perception of reality. See my tagline.
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