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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Is it any wonder with these Chicago political thugs in the White House that the best and the brightest weren’t utilized from the beginning?
Yup...that will work...(rolling eyes)
How about take the site down, outsource the fix to a actually company who does this for "profit" put some realistic incentives on the table for a fast turnaround...
Probably it will be up and running right in a year...
By then we will have won the Senate and just repeal the bastard child from hell..
Even if the tech glitches were fixed, the prices will still be the same.
Inflated sky-high because of Gov't Big Brother mandates.
Forget for a moment that the reason for this website is a poorly designed and disastrous law that should have never been passed in the first place.
What matters now, in that there is some ability to actually do something about it, is keeping the monstrosity of this website in the public’s eye and holding the administration accountable for the long series of poor choices made, as well as the long series guaranteed to come.
First, because of the way the first contract was bid, the old disaster can’t be torn out from the roots and replaced entirely. That would open the old contractor to liabilities and the bidding process to congressional scrutiny. It should, but admitting failure is not an option here. This means a portion of the old poor decisions must remain, at least for a bit. This will drag down the replacement efforts, no matter how well they proceed.
Second, any well functioning IT system has an appropriately sized testing and rollout plan. Not here, schedule will not allow it. large swaths of code will be load tested for the first time in production, little to no security and penetration testing will occur, and significant risks will be accepted... often unknowingly. This means your personal information will be at risk as a user, insurance companies will be exposed to hackers and lawsuits, and all without accountability.
Third, when you pull an “all hands on deck” scramble on a complex problem, you are forced to borrow preassembled components from elsewhere and try to make them fit together. There are going to be major integration issues as each stakeholder shoves their products into the system, each with their own interfaces, data formats, and system requirements. The boutique interface translators will be a further drag on development and performance. They would also be a drag on testing, but the testing won’t actually occur.
Fourth, the political pressure is going to be a particular harm to the efforts. The administration has not been accommodating of criticism or eager to admit its faults, there is no indication this will be any different. Project manager, no matter how capable, will have a constant press by nameless bureaucrats to deliver successes they can present to the public quickly. They will shift priorities, undermine the project management at every turn and dissolve into the ether when called out for their meddling.
Long story short, this is going to be a disaster for a long time
Exactly. Building crap on top of a lousy foundation is not going to help. I’ve got 15 years of experience building enterprise applications and lipstick on the pig isn’t going to help.
If they could not do a tech surge in the last three years, what makes them think that they can do it now?
I hope the techies they hire report all the interfaces they find to the DNC and ACORN, and Soros organizations.
I’ll bet the cancer has metastasized to every socialist sympathizer that there is. It will include sharing your identity and your medical records, and will be excused after a sincere apology and the explanation that either it was a rogue worker or that they simply made a mistake.
Now that’s what I’m saying.
Time for re-reimbursement and charges.
Do you think it’s possible for them to hire people that actually know what they’re doing and have this website recoded properly in a short amount of time, say six months to a year?
This only telegraphs UTTER CATASTOPHIC FAILURE.
where will be the security checks of these “rescuers” be done?
You have more years in the barrel than I. But, having worn the white hat many times, I agree with you.
IMHO, first thing: A comprehensive document that does a no nonsense comparison between the published specs and the “finished” product. Oh, there are no specs? Well then, we may have to go back and start over.
bump #25
What is really funny is that the stupid arrogant Phucker in the White House could have postponed this mess a year and blamed it on Republicans.
Software that’s been patched up to work, operates about as well as an Armani suite that was worn during a high speed motorcycle wreck (with lots of road rash) looks.
Sorry, Mr. Healthcare Official, the “best and brightest” are all gainfully employed at Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Facebook, LinkedIn, Zillow, Trulia, SalesForce.com, et al. You get the “worst and dimmest” because you are government and who in their right mind would work for you? You don’t offer anybody the chance to be a millionaire or maybe even a billionaire. Unless you’re a CEO crony corporatist crook, that is.
Yup. Easy to do this when one is spending Other People's Money.
Something I've wondered about quite a bit is that businesses are put through the wringer every year, in order to comply with SOX regulations. Given the reports that the system wasn't tested until the week before the rollout, but the company I work for spends at least a full month every year, just working with auditors for SOX compliance, I'll bet dollars to donuts that ObamaCare IT infrastructure does NOT comply with SOX! IIRC, non-compliance with SOX makes the CEO criminally liable. Since Barky is the "CEO" of the USA, I wonder if he's criminally liable?
Mark
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