Posted on 05/05/2014 3:29:18 PM PDT by lowbridge
Massachusetts is preparing to abandon its troubled ObamaCare website, a system so problematic that the state was forced to enroll tens of thousands of people in temporary insurance plans through Medicaid.
The plan underscores the depth of technical problems with the Massachusetts Health Connector and echoes a recent decision by Cover Oregon, another glitch-ridden marketplace, to hand federal health officials the reins to its system this month.
Massachusetts officials are pursuing what they described as a "dual-track strategy" for their insurance marketplace, combining new, off-the-shelf enrollment software with a back-up plan to shift the system into HealthCare.gov if the transition takes too long.
"I’ve said all along that no option on the table would be perfect, and the dual track certainly has its benefits and its challenges," said Sarah Iselin, special assistant to Gov. Deval Patrick (D), in a statement Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Someone e-mail Paul Krugman:
Inventing a Failure (He’s talking about Obamacare)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3152468/posts
Just another opportunity for the Massachusetts Governor to eventually have a new multi million Dollar contract initiated with some hack outfit that will cost taxpayers again for services already paid for.
I'd like to know the name of the general contractor on this and how much of the Mass taxpayer money they'll be refunding because obviously the project failed.
Amazing, isn't it, that web sites several times the size of this one (think Amazon, ebay, etc.) run 23/7/365 with nary a hiccup. Yet this one fails miserably. Hmmm... maybe because one is a government site and the others are private enterprise?
“Challenges?” Darned tootin’ they have challenges. Total failure really wrecks credibility, and they are trying to rebuild from that?
If there were any state in the Union that did NOT need the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010”, it should have been Massachusetts. They already HAD the prototype up and sort of running, what was the point of displacing an existing system?
The Federal version is unbelievably imperfect. Genetically flawed and badly nurtured during its gestation, Obamacare is a mutant monstrosity gone badly awry. There is no way to make it viable or to assure it could exist except on perpetual life support.
That would be CGI, the same one that did (or not) do healthcare.gov.
I was almost hired by Massachusetts to oversee the testing CGI was to do for the website, but the requisition got pulled as TPTB decided CGI didn't need monitoring.
Spectacular mistake.
I guess they milked all of the Federal money they could out of that. Time for a new website.
They prolly decided the web site didn’t need any testing either :)
From an old QC person a long time ago.
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