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 ...
I have no idea what that file is but my computer registry cleanup removed it.
https://v.calheers.ca.gov/apspahbx/ahbxanonym.portal
But, alas, it is no longer responding.
OTOH, https://v.calheers.ca.gov led me to an Oracle website earlier but no longer.
It now takes you to a "Covered California" page that loads but the "Apply Now" link never loads.
Looks like a total Day 1 disaster for California. (And apparently for Oracle as well).
Best bet of surviving this is just stay as far the hell away as humanly possible, for as long as possible.
Sounds like metrosexual wannabe programmers too busy not asking and not telling to properly test the site.
‘bammers gave all the money to his pals in the SEIU and Planned Parenthood and left a bare minimum for website development.
Testing? Testing is for those crazy right-wingers.
The arrogance of these development teams to not realize they were in WAY over their head is only matched by their foolish leader in the Whitehouse, who was also too arrogant to realize that he was in way over his head....
This article in The Atlantic only serves to highlight that they were more intent on trying to sound intelligent and visionary than on thinking through what they hell they had gotten themselves into.....would you trust your private information to a system built by these clowns?
This is the greatest thing ever!
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