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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: Mr. K

Maybe, maybe not, but you missed the point. The MATH is not fixable.


41 posted on 10/18/2013 11:45:30 AM PDT by 867V309
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To: Vince Ferrer
If a private company did this they would have to bring down the website, rename the product, and relaunch with a newly hired IT department.

The fact that nobody in the Administration or democrats has broken ranks and started blaming CGI leads me to only one conclusion. The system was spec'd out this way, and CGI probably warned them of the possible shortcomings of the system.

There is an Oracle component to the system, and they have already come out with a very pointed statement that their software isn't to blame.

42 posted on 10/18/2013 11:53:06 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: DaxtonBrown
I live in Vegas and have been at times involved with some Strip high end shows.

I had to read that twice..I thought you wrote "high end strip shows"! LOL

43 posted on 10/18/2013 12:15:47 PM PDT by BRK
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To: 867V309

oh - I agree with that too! my only objection was where you said the website is fixable - I don’t think it is

The math is impossible you can’t add up 2 and 2 and get 7 no matter how hard you try

And no programmer in the world can follow the disjointed logic in this law and it’s 30,000 pages of contradictory regulations (you cant program something to be both true and false ) AND ALSO to be flexible enough to accommodate all of Obama’s spur-of-the-moment dictatorial changes he makes whenever he feels like it.


44 posted on 10/18/2013 12:32:21 PM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Mr. K

Read again, I said website MAY be fixable :)


45 posted on 10/18/2013 12:37:38 PM PDT by 867V309
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To: Sub-Driver

They never said it was going to be good!


46 posted on 10/18/2013 12:53:23 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: DaxtonBrown

I am a business owner. I agree.


47 posted on 10/18/2013 12:57:55 PM PDT by I_be_tc
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To: AppyPappy
If the Republicans are smart, they’ll refuse to push the dates out.

The enrollment period is needed to minimize "as needed" purchases of insurance. Lengthen the enrollment period and the insurers will squeal that the rules are being changed.

48 posted on 10/18/2013 1:00:41 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Right Wing Yahoos taking Over the GOP --YAHOO!)
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To: MNGal
...begin clamoring for the one-payer government system

That will be Hillary's job after the 2014 elections.

49 posted on 10/18/2013 1:04:06 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Right Wing Yahoos taking Over the GOP --YAHOO!)
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To: Sub-Driver

The problem with these left wingers is that they think it’s all about beating up on their idol. They don’t get that the working middle class democrats are going to be hurt too. It punishes everyone - young, old, sick, healthy. We all have to pay a price. I thought the rats believe in choice. Only when it comes to snuffing out a life I guess.


50 posted on 10/18/2013 1:06:46 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: jersey117

I haven’t fully explored the “why” of this yet,
but I’m beginning to see a common “higher virtue” theme among the left.

Being “all in the same boat” is a higher virtue than actually helping anyone.


51 posted on 10/18/2013 1:10:08 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Billthedrill

If there are not enough enrollees in Obamacare the exchange insurance companies will let it be known.


52 posted on 10/18/2013 1:10:20 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Right Wing Yahoos taking Over the GOP --YAHOO!)
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To: Mr. K

Of course it’s fixable.

Just like a lot of the starter cars on Overhaulin’ were fixable: just go out and build a completely new car and say it’s an update of the old one.

(I used to do software development project management for a living)

;-)


53 posted on 10/18/2013 1:11:42 PM PDT by tanknetter
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54 posted on 10/18/2013 1:17:27 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Mike Darancette

I would suggest to all I know who are thinking about signing up for this to wait a couple years, even under the threat of penalty. I think there is a very good chance it will implode, as others are saying.

I would rather pay the penalty then put all my personal info out there unsecured. The cost of that would be endless to me if my identity were stolen, and I think there will be a lot of that.

I don’t think the “navigators” are any more trustworthy than the TSA, or NSA


55 posted on 10/18/2013 1:27:23 PM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: kevslisababy

I’m going to Christian Healthsharing Ministry route.
It’s exempt from penalty and far cheaper than any exchange deal.

First $300 is out of pocket per incident - covered after that.


56 posted on 10/18/2013 1:33:01 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: tanknetter

ohh.... you mean version 1.1 ~!

those arent’ bugs, those are features!


57 posted on 10/18/2013 2:52:42 PM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Mr. K
ohh.... you mean version 1.1 ~!

those arent’ bugs, those are features!


It's only a minor bug release ... that requires a complete rearchitecting of the system.

Yup, been there done that. The fun times are when you have one team trying to finish off the system that everyone on the project side knows is going to fail while a second team is concurrently working on the "bug-release" system that's supposed to succeed.
58 posted on 10/18/2013 2:56:59 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: sportutegrl

Being a narcissist means never having to admit to reality.

I envy everyone who knows a liberal who is chagrined or even outright furious and betrayed. The ones I know just keep saying that “they did a poll and no one even knows anything about it”, so, therefore (in their twisted minds), it is really just fine.

Of course, these people are either retired or very comfortable or their employers are still picking up the majority of the premiums or....who knows? Bottom line is they are still worshiping the donk idol and saying they “can’t wait for Hillary” and they want to “end the right-wing insanity.”

MAYBE I’ll get to see someone eat crow, but so far, nada.


59 posted on 10/18/2013 4:14:11 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Sub-Driver

This mess is far worse than anyone can imagine.


60 posted on 10/18/2013 4:15:45 PM PDT by dforest
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