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Huffington Post: "Obamacare Nearing 'Holy [crap]' Moment"
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Posted on 10/18/2013 10:38:11 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Edited on 10/18/2013 11:01:57 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

If Obama and his precious "Affordable Care Act" have lost the Huffington Post, they're both in a lot of trouble.

A broken website imperils the largest expansion of the American safety net since the Great Society.

More than two weeks into the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov, the website created by President Barack Obama's health care reform law still isn't working right.


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TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; abortion; deathpanels; huffpo; obamacare; obamacarerollout; zerocare
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To: Sub-Driver

The site is collecting information and messing it up. This is bad. Once erroneous information is “on the computer” it’s devilishly difficult to fix it, cuz it has propagated itself into other systems and joined with correct information on countless files and databases.

It’s easier to leave the incorrect information on the files and let the poor folk suffer the consequences. And that’s what will happen.

This system is full of errors. Since the developers were under impossible time constraints they very likely omitted security and controls. This will give hackers and identity theives a fertile field to work.

The economic consequences of this disaster are only beginning.


21 posted on 10/18/2013 11:01:44 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Now that they’ve got their open credit card, the Dems have to turn their efforts towards convincing Lord Ego to grant at least a one-year delay in this thing before they all go down in an electoral tsunami.

This article is a step in that effort.


22 posted on 10/18/2013 11:05:52 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sub-Driver
"A broken website imperils the largest expansion of the American safety net hammock since the Great Society."

There, fixed it...

23 posted on 10/18/2013 11:06:19 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Sub-Driver

24 posted on 10/18/2013 11:09:01 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: 867V309

the website is NOT fixable

(and I write software for a living)


25 posted on 10/18/2013 11:10:04 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Sub-Driver
I have been quite depressed since the election in NJ and the Debt Ceiling/Government shutdown by the GOPe. However, I think I have found a bright spot in all of this.

Remember, that Repubs wanted to delay Obamacare for one year as a condition of ending the shutdown, but Obama and the Dems flat out denied this? How can they delay it now and save face? Obama is a hard headed narcissist and will never admit defeat. He 'won' the shutdown and will not now move to delay Obamacare.

So this fiasco will roll on and take out the Demon Rats and the MSM with it.

26 posted on 10/18/2013 11:12:19 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: VanDeKoik
I hope ever ****sucker at HuffPo goes broke and suffers because of it.

At least, reap what they've sown. Feel the full effect of Dumbocare, the long lines, no doctors, high rates, etc....

27 posted on 10/18/2013 11:12:43 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Psalm 37:7)
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To: DaxtonBrown
I live in Vegas and have been at times involved with some Strip high end shows. What is well known is that if you botch the rollout, your business is doomed. I don’t see how Obamacare avoids a death spiral, just from the crushed interest after the startup. It’s as if these people had never run a business.

The big difference, of course, is that people are not required to buy show tickets.

28 posted on 10/18/2013 11:18:02 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the Libs say we are.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

“It’s as if these people had never run a business.”

No kiddin....


29 posted on 10/18/2013 11:19:15 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: DaxtonBrown

“...Strip high end shows. What is well known is that if you botch the rollout, your business is doomed....”

They probably would have done better if everyone walking by had been forced at gunpoint to buy a ticket and watch.


30 posted on 10/18/2013 11:20:07 AM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is nothing that can’t be patched over with an aggressive public relations campaign, and HuffPo will fall into line with all the other good little goose-steppers. “Did we say ‘broken’ website? We meant ‘awesome’ website!” Watch it happen.


31 posted on 10/18/2013 11:22:09 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DaxtonBrown

This is the government!!! GOVERNMENT never fails BECAUSE IT IS OUR MONEY!!!!


32 posted on 10/18/2013 11:23:41 AM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: DaxtonBrown

Obastardcare isn’t a business, he doesn’t need to care how botched it is. One of the benefits of being in government.


33 posted on 10/18/2013 11:23:49 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Billthedrill

Or “it would have worked if not for those meddling Republicans.”


34 posted on 10/18/2013 11:24:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sub-Driver
Are republicans going to get an 'I told you so...'?

Is Ted Cruz about to get an apology?


35 posted on 10/18/2013 11:25:35 AM PDT by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The Tea Party needs to start putting out "Cruz Was Right" signs.
36 posted on 10/18/2013 11:28:00 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Sub-Driver

Yes! KILL IT WITH FIRE!


37 posted on 10/18/2013 11:28:24 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: rup1971

Our Holy [crap] moment was in Nov 2008.
We knew we were screwed that night.


38 posted on 10/18/2013 11:29:49 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Sub-Driver

A guy I respect says that Cruz screwed himself.

I told him: When ObamaCare crashes into the dirt and everyone is paying 2-5X for less healthcare who will the public remember as the man who stood up to stop it? McConnell? LOL......


39 posted on 10/18/2013 11:30:22 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: Sub-Driver

What’s funny is that Obama was suppose to be soooooooo hip and knew how to use the Internet to his advantage unlike those stuffy old white guys like McCain and Romney.

And now the website for his beloved health care insurance will go down in history as a great failure like the Edsel and New Coke.


40 posted on 10/18/2013 11:34:10 AM PDT by Ticonderoga34
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