State exchanges cost more to build than it would to insure all the people they've signed up

Conservative Intel ^ | 10/31/13 | David Freddoso

[The Old Hoosier]

A billion dollars might not seem like a lot of money, but it’s a lot more when you consider how little it’s accomplished...

[rdcbn]

Perhaps the the point of the ACA WAS to build the website and data base connecting all of Americans IRS, Heath Care, financial, residency, gun ownership, mental health and job history all into one big integrated system accessible by political “Naviagators” (read commissars) with no oversight in such a way it circumvented the control and checks, balances and accountability built into the member data bases (ie unaccountable and unsupervised Navigators on the streets have more access to peoples financial data than people actually working in the IRS who are accountable and supervised and who must adhere to agency rules).

[Graewoulf]

DERELICTION OF DUTY file for the upcoming Impeachment of the White House resident commonly known as “B. Hussein Obama,” also known as Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.

[sportutegrl]

Don't turn around.

Der Kommissar's in town.

[JRandomFreeper]

They have to eat somewhere.

/johnny

[tacticalogic]

They have to eat somewhere.

I think we might need to test that.

[BwanaNdege]

“State exchanges cost more to build than it would to insure all the people they’ve signed up”

A company with whom I once worked hired a software firm to upgrade our GIS program. After 24 months of work & $2.7 million, I asked the manager how close to ready the upgrade was.

“We, we have the screens done!”

Naturally, corporate HQ killed the program and let go most of the people working with the old version.

Later, I asked the CEO of another software-data processing firm with whom we had been exceptionally pleased, “How long and how much to do the upgrade?”

“About 6 months...no, let me make that 12 months to be sure. We would do it for $100.000.”

“So if I budget 12 months & $250,000, we’re covered?”

“Absolutely.”

(This man & his company ALWAYS delivered MORE than they promised.)

[Steve_Seattle]

Where I worked (Seattle city government), our own department spent more than $2 million to reinvent the wheel and build a system that in some ways paralleled the city's central accounting system. We already had dozens of reports and queries that met the same functionality as most of what they recreated. Any reporting or query gap could have been filled by myself or by hiring a couple of report writers for less than a tenth of what they paid for the new sub-system. Meanwhile, the city is moving forward on some major mods that will then have to be reflected in my former department's sub-system, probably to the tune of another million or so.

Since my skills were being ignored, I just took an early retirement rather than twiddle my thumbs while consultants were doing the work I should have been doing. And, of course, as soon as I retired, they upgraded my position for someone who will be doing the same thing.

[Uncle Miltie]

"As I said, you are just citing MSNBC talking points and a liberal MIT professor. Romney HIMSELF pointed out the huge differences between his law and Obamacare, and the length of the respective laws proves that they are vastly different. And this is not to say that I support Romneycare - I’ve read that it too has all sorts of issues and problems, financial and otherwise. My only point is that it is vastly different from Obamacare." - Steve

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Obama: Health-care law modeled after Mitt Romney’s plan NY Post ^ | 10/31/13 | Geoff Earle

With his signature health-care law under fire, President Obama flew to Boston Wednesday in an effort to remind the public that ObamaCare is modeled on the plan of his former GOP opponent and Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney.

“Your law was the model for the nation’s law,” Obama told supporters in Faneuil Hall on Wednesday.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3085826/posts

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Tell me again why RomneyCare "is vastly different from Obamacare."