[ProtectOurFreedom]

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.

[babygene]

“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.”

You make a good point.

[tanknetter]

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.

I'm betting that calls have already been made from the White House to Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerburg (and other successful Liberal tech entrepreneurs) requesting that they "loan" their best/brightest to HHS to get the system up and running.

And there's no doubt that they've said "absolutely".

Unfortunately, the rework of Healthcare.gov that's being proposed is going to violate all sorts of Federal contracting laws, regulations, rules, practices, etc.

The Republicans need to get out ahead of this and stay on top of it.

[JediJones]

The government offers great job security for the incompetent though.