isn't it's just a rehash of the failed canadian program? so it's failed twice now... garbage in, garbage out
Posted on 10/13/2013 3:34:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
While the government shutdown distracted much of the media from the troubled September 30 launch of the Affordable Care Act's national insurance marketplace, heathcare.gov, the site's numerous and ongoing issues have become impossible to ignore. The New York Times took a comprehensive look at the nearly two-week-old system, and it's not pretty. "These are not glitches," said an insurance executive who has communicated with federal officials who are trying to implement the new healthcare plan. "The extent of the problems is pretty enormous. At the end of our calls, people say, 'It's awful, just awful.'"
At least 14.6 million people have visited the site so far, but the government has declined to say how many have successfully used it to enroll in insurance programs. Insurance executives told the Times that they have received only "a trickle" of enrollment files. Some forms have been sent to the wrong insurers because of company name mix-ups, while others are unusable because they are missing "crucial information." Meanwhile, a Times researcher who managed to register with healthcare.gov on October 1 was never able to actually log in to the site, despite 4o attempts to do so over the course of eleven days.
Apparently, healthcare.gov's flaws aren't a surprise to many people who worked on it directly. Internal reports show that officials repeatedly worried that the $400 million system would not be ready in time for the scheduled launch date, which the Obama administration reportedly refused to move or scale back because they did not want to give ammunition to Obamacare's eager critics. Concerns included shortages of funds and other resources, slowness in providing contractors with specifications for the project, and the decision to make the Medicare and Medicaid agency responsible for integrating and testing the newly created databases and software.
Officials have said publicly that the site should be fixed in time for the December deadline to sign up for coverage that begins on New Year's Day. A Times source "familiar with the system's development" says it's "now roughly 70 percent of the way toward operating properly." As for that other 30 percent? "I’ve heard as little as two weeks or as much as a couple of months." Obviously, this situation is embarrassing for the White House. It also poses a threat to the success of the Obamacare. The program won't result in lower insurance prices unless large numbers of people participate in the new healthcare exchanges, and that won't happen if they can't even get the website to work.
It needs to stay broken forever.
The vast majority of software engineers are Libertarians. They only have idiot liberals available to run the website.
I don’t think the answer is very difficult. it takes expertise and competence to do software engineering. can you imagine the affirmative action hires working on obamacare.
I can tell you from experience, affirmative action hires cannot write code.
Gotta wonder if Libertarian hackers have sent or will send a Stuxnet type virus into the ObamaCare website. Hee! Hee!
They can take their deadlines and penalties and shove `em.
I think the BIG government IT boys are still trying to fix the food stamp machine. The ObamaCare website is going to wait. Barry’s “children” are out there starving right now!
Obama & his cohorts will refuse to acknowledge that the problems are more than easy-fix glitches, and they will refuse to accept help from those who know how to fix the website.
They do not want it to be fixed.
Lowest bidder?
Having worked in software, data processing, programming and IT for 40+ years, I offer this tried and true theorem:
The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time.
The remaining 10% takes the other 90%.
Proved time after time after time. And rarely taken into account by contractors or clients.
I am stunned to read that programming on this behemoth didn’t start until this past spring. Designed to fail?
A brilliant analysis. Love your post.
As we used to snark in the automotive industry when talking about mechatronic systems...
“Let’s change the software, it’s free and happens instantly”
A brilliant analysis. Love your post.
As we used to snark in the automotive industry when talking about mechatronic systems...
“Let’s change the software, it’s free and happens instantly”
I have been in healthcare for 33 years as a physician assistant. The elephant in the room is that the government cannot even get the website right...and they are going to dole out healthcare??? I can’t even imagine the mistakes in diagnosis coding, medication errors and billing as well as a mass exodus of American schooled doctors that await people when this thing gets in to full swing. I work at a large hospital in Alabama and everyone I come into contact with in the course of the day (healthcare workers) basically agrees that this has nothing to do with healthcare as so many of you have posted already. It has everything to do with crashing the Republic as we know it. It’s called a Trojan Horse.
Keep it broken forever by visiting often.
I’ve posted this before, but the FED bureaucrats who I worked for, signed off on every stage of my projects until the end. It was the FINAL stage that I always realized that they never read the outlines or specs. But, what the hell do they care?? It’s not like it’s their money or as if they will be held to account! This same class of worthless and talentless mashed potatoes will retire early on upper 5 figures. Pathetic.
I hope some hackers make sure of that.
isn't it's just a rehash of the failed canadian program? so it's failed twice now... garbage in, garbage out
Having worked in software, data processing, programming and IT for 40+ years, I offer this tried and true theorem:
The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time.
The remaining 10% takes the other 90%.
Proved time after time after time. And rarely taken into account by contractors or clients.
I am stunned to read that programming on this behemoth didn’t start until this past spring. Designed to fail?
*****
I, too, have worked with software systems - 30+ years in teleom. The way that they implemented this system is nothing short of a MASSIVE CF.
Check out my thread from yesterday:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3078256/posts
You know, this type of system ain’t rocket science - its simple order processing. Amazon processes like 20 million orders per day.
Amazon lets you shop [ie: browse healthcare plans based on generic info - age, location, income, etc.], THEN you check out and give specific data [ie: name, address, SSN, etc.].
Amazon then sends standardized, complete, AND accurate order form to its warehouses [ie: healthcare providers].
The government coulda followed the Amaon model and made sort of a “clone” of it for like $1 million bucks ...
To think that a new software system that is dependent on a number of old antiquated federal systems is insane.
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