Posted on 10/01/2013 1:04:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the first website to be demonstrated by a sitting President of the United States, Healthcare.gov already occupies an unusual place in history. In October, it will take on an even more important historic role, guiding millions of Americans through the process of choosing health insurance.
How a website is built or designed may seem mundane to many people, but when the site in question is focused upon such an important function, what it looks like and how it works matter. Last week, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relaunched Healthcare.gov with a new appearance and modern technology that is unusual in federal-government websites.
"It's fast, built in static HTML, completely scalable and secure," said Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer of HHS, in an interview. "It's basically setting up a web server. That's the beauty of it." What makes such an ambitious experiment in social coding more unusual is that the larger political and health-care policy context that it's being been built within is more fraught with tension and scrutiny than any other arena in the federal government.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Note the date it was published : June 28,2013
Love that pic!!!
Okay now we will try the landline # 1-800-318-2596 listed above:
It is an enlightening read, is it not?
For IT pro’s such as we are, it reads like a grad student coding cram session, does it not?
I’m not even clicking on the ObamaScare website. I have no need to anyway, but there’s no telling what you might get, or give, just by going there.
Healthcare.gov: Code Developed by the People’s Republic of China Hacker Corps for the Peasants, Released Back to the Peasants by der 0berFuhrer emperor Hussein 0bama I, Caliph of The United Socialist States of Amerika.
Healthcare.gov: Code Developed by the People’s Republic of China Hacker Corps for the Peasants, Released Back to the Peasants by der 0berFuhrer emperor Hussein 0bama I, Caliph of The United Socialist States of Amerika.
Let us hope that our friends the hackers will take good and permanent care of this website. It is doable.
Oh, and be sure to surf on over to DevelopmentSeed.org and read the staff bio’s.
A whole lot of liberal arts majors, writing code for third-world do-gooderism.
Not at all who a pro would hire for a huge IT OLTP system.
Cloward-Piven at work to overwhelm your world.
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”
So when Identity theives steal all our personal data from this site who do we sue??
Oh, we can’t sue the federal government... and expect to win...
“June 28, 2013”
Perfect day for a replay.
>> The people that helped to build the new Healthcare.gov are unusual: Instead of some obscure sub-contractor in a nameless office park in northern Virginia, the site was iteratively created by a cross-disciplinary team of developers and editors at HHS, and contractors at Teal Design, Edward Mullen Studio, and Development Seed, a scrappy startup in a garage in the District of Columbia.
Not the “obscure” contractors, but the other ones at Teal, Mullen, etc.
Cross-disciplinary, scrappy garage startup... That’s like so hip, man....
Jam the website with GIGO.
And how well is the site working out today, its first full day of use?
Never start vast projects with half-vast ideas.
This is not just a traffic pile-up or a simple train crash. This is of asteroid on collision course with Earth magnitude.
And this is just getting people’s names on the list.
What could possibly go wrong beyond that?
What does it matter if they do get it up and running? The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 will manage to do great and grievous harm even after the first impact, reverberating far beyond its initial strike zone.
I see no good outcome.
1984, we have arrived.
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