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‘Tech Surge’ Planned to Fix Obamacare Exchanges
Wall Street Journal ^ | October 20, 2013 | By LOUISE RADNOFSKY

Posted on 10/20/2013 2:10:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday it was bringing in outside help to resolve some of the technical woes that have beset the federally run insurance exchanges, which the agency acknowledged “has not lived up to the expectations of the American people.”

“We are committed to doing better,” agency officials said in a blog post that also said that “our team is bringing in some of the best and brightest from both inside and outside government to scrub in with the team and help improve healthcare.gov.”

Spokespeople for the agency didn’t immediately respond to questions seeking more information about the development, which it is billing as a “tech surge.”

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To: Delta Dawn
I am curious about the number of lines of code.

Lines of code don't matter as much any more. C# is a good example. One line of code can include an alpha expression and be wrapped by a delegate, making that one line of code capable of iterating or sorting a series of objects quite efficiently. Problem is, it might take a day to correctly write that one line.

121 posted on 10/20/2013 8:40:05 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Thom Pain
In my experience in S/W development (45 years) adding resources to a project that is behind or in trouble ALWAYS makes things worse. ALWAYS

These people obviously haven't read "The Mythical Man-Month"

122 posted on 10/20/2013 9:03:52 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Lazamataz

I would abandon the “one session” model. You should sign up and be told you’ll get an e-mail when your information has been gathered from the various databases. An IRS tax return isn’t processed in 5 seconds either when you submit your tax returns online. It’s probably an unrealistic goal to do this in real time, because of all the potential links in the chain coalescing that data that could break.


123 posted on 10/20/2013 9:38:12 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: RKV
Guys, is there actually a spec underneath all of this crap?

A spec probably but this CF was caused by changing the spec as they went along. ex: "We need it to do one more thing" repeatedly

124 posted on 10/20/2013 9:59:31 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Lazamataz

This isn’t a lot different than the sign up for Social Security which seems to work quite well.


125 posted on 10/20/2013 10:07:42 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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