yup, that and in the infamous words of, Dick Jones: I had a guarantee military sale with ED 209 Maintenance contract, Renovation program, Spare parts for 25 years. Who cares it worked or not?
This is what happens when you give all the money earmarked for developing a simple website over three years to
ACORN and the SEIU.
yup, that and in the infamous words of, Dick Jones: I had a guarantee military sale with ED 209 Maintenance contract, Renovation program, Spare parts for 25 years. Who cares it worked or not?
Actually, that’s kind of irrelevant.
Consider it as an engineering problem. You have a CONOPS, the “Affordable Care Act”, weighing in at ~1800 pages.
You then have raw requirements, the 10,000+ pages of supporting regulations, which were still in flux and development ever since.
Call it a year to call for bidders, do the bid and award, and get things started. We’re already in late 2011.
Turn all of that to a specific set of requirements and develop a performance and detail spec: another year.
Which gives you a year to design, build, and test ??? Not gonna work.
Congress has no idea of the engineering realities required by their actions, I’d be surprised if it’s moderately functional for SOME classes of cases, in a year or so from now. . . .
This is what we get with a House and Senate composed mostly of Lawyers. . . .