Posted on 12/01/2013 7:02:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
And I’m never going to visit your website or anything else associated with you no matter what you say or do.
That's me also.
My wife and I haven't had health insurance for 4 years now, can't afford the $400 a month. Just barely getting by. Now I have to pay the government another 1% of my income for nothing.
FUBO
They missed the Dec 1st deadline.
When you keep moving the goal posts, you can ALWAYS claim you reached the goal.
The people who would have us believe they didn’t know the site was broken now tell us it is fixed. Got it..
I believe John McAfee opined that the best “fix” would be to throw the whole website out and start over, which would take 2-3 years. And IIRC, David Kennedy said something to the effect of at least several months, when he was on Greta’s show, while some of the other cyber-experts who gave Congressional testimony would not speculate to Congress definitively on a time frame, as in “unknown”, but not soon.
I’m no cyber-expert, but it would seem to me that with a half billion lines of code already written, riddled with vulnerabilities from the ground up, and who knows how compromised already by hackers, that the developers have an effectively impossible task in ever making the site secure, unless they do start over.
Well, I would reword that to say that "The bigger problem is not the web site its the PRODUCT!"
That said, it is important to understand that healthcare.gov is, as was explained by David Kennedy on Greta's show, essentially the hub of the whole incredibly complex system. The product isn't going to happen if the site is crippled or is not trusted by the majority of the people.
Trying to make the site secure, with half a billion lines of code already written with flawed security from the ground up, and almost certainly with many hackers already "inside", is likely effectively impossible, unless the developers, or more sensibly, some new, more competent developers, throw out the whole thing and restart from scratch.
What puzzles me is that no publicly visible "leaders" who oppose Obamacare, or at least say they do, have made noise about the security problems, when every independent cyber-expert I know of has said, in effect, "don't create an account on healthcare.gov if you value your personal data." If people (not to mention insurance companies, etc.) took the experts' advice, that alone would derail Obamacare.
The only thing I can figure is that Palin, Cruz, and others, either don't understand the above, or they figure that if the present site lurches on, the security problems will take some months to manifest themselves in a big way: That will give them large numbers of Identity Thefts and real (electronic) $$ thefts to use as a continuing campaign issue going into Nov. 2014.
I can sort of understand that strategy: Allow one evil to cut off the legs of an even greater evil, and possibly as an extra bonus destroy the libs for at least a couple election cycles. But it could backfire: "You knew, and didn't do all you could to prevent millions (?) of identity thefts?" I also cringe at the thought of "allowing" that much damage, even if is mostly to people not hostile to Obamacare. "Coventry", perhaps?
Of course the whole thing should be tossed out and redone from the ground up by a company that has a solid track record of producing quality, high volume web sites. But that won’t ever happen.
We must always remember that Obamcare is just a step towards the Marxist’s wet dream of single payer. And if that takes several trillion dollars, those “in charge” could care less. They want the power, nothing more.
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