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Obamacare Threatens to Implode - Its software problems might get ironed out. Or they might not.
National Review Online ^ | October 18, 2013 | Michael Barone

Posted on 10/19/2013 10:33:39 AM PDT by neverdem

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To: TomGuy

I’ve heard that a high-ranking executive in the Canadian company that got the obamacare.gov contract is an old buddy of Miz Michelle.


21 posted on 10/19/2013 11:19:32 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
I’ve heard that a high-ranking executive in the Canadian company that got the obamacare.gov contract is an old buddy of Miz Michelle.

I was doing some digging earlier today, trying to find links between Serco's management and Sebelius. Every search I did of the form [manager name] + serco + sebelius the first hits turned up by Bing were links to NSA spy lists (wikileaks?). Weird.

22 posted on 10/19/2013 11:26:02 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: neverdem

The regime used “trusted” computer geeks from their campaign organization to try to hide from congress.

Unfortunately, the only thing they know how to build a program for is voter fraud.


23 posted on 10/19/2013 11:36:15 AM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: DustyMoment
NO!! Make them go through it and let it be the disaster it is becoming. If it is delayed for a year, it gives them time to fix it and the Dems come away with a major coup.

I concur. By the end of the first week, it was quite evident that the system was nowhere near ready for use. The Democrats' refusal to negotiate has wrought this situation, so let them savor every bite of the $hit sandwich.

24 posted on 10/19/2013 11:38:59 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: JPG
Looks like the doctor's waiting room under Lucifercare...


25 posted on 10/19/2013 11:39:02 AM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: newfreep
Looks like the doctor's waiting room under Lucifercare...

So the ones outside on the train are paying for the ones sitting inside... Until the train wreck where everyone is in need of care, no one is paying, the train is wrecked and there are no doctors around.

26 posted on 10/19/2013 11:56:21 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: FlingWingFlyer

What I’ve heard from people that routinely fix software glitches, this could be completely reprogrammed by someone who knows what he is doing in a few days.

Its not rocket science, its just routine business.


27 posted on 10/19/2013 11:56:58 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: headstamp 2
ObamaCare isn’t about software glitches. It’s about a system designed to implode upon itself thereby setting off a clamor for single-payer.

With all of the horror stories from single payer countries passing this House of Representatives? That's just a useful fiction the rats might believe. The rats are devious, but they are not that smart. They could have lost the Senate too in either 2010 or 2012.

28 posted on 10/19/2013 11:57:05 AM PDT by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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To: neverdem

As someone else on FR noted, 2,000+ pages of a law, plus 30,000 (!) pages of regulations cannot be programmed into a computer. The Big Blue, chess playing computer, was less complex than this.


29 posted on 10/19/2013 12:00:42 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: neverdem

In person, on national news websites, and on local news/chat websites, we need to make sure our neighbors understand what ObamaCare means.

We have a social responsibility to let others know that “navigators” have no background checks and may be illegals or felons working on identity theft.

We have a collective responsibility (the pro-ObamaCare far left fringe should love that phrase) to let people know that ObamaCare is not going well and buying a policy may mean paying premiums for insurance that won’t actually exist if they need it, under a policy that will not guarantee that any doctors will be willing to treat those who manage to buy coverage.

We especially need, for the good of our fellow diverse Americans, legal or illegal, to ridicule the idea of paying for coverage now, at prices that are artificially high to subsidize those insiders with connections, when people can get the same prices later (and probably with a much shorter wait) once they actually need the insurance, if that need ever arises.


30 posted on 10/19/2013 12:06:28 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
"You can’t fix stupid."

This is my area of expertise, "the backroom connection between the insurance companies and the federal government is a disaster." You do not write one line of code until all parties have agreed (at least in principle) on the data model. Without an agreed on data model you have NOTHING and never will have anything. Gov should have said, at some point the the data model dev cycle, here is our data model, use it or you do not get any Obamacare customers. If they do not have an aggreed upon data model they are beyond screwed and someone (or two) needed to be locked up, this is a 600+ million dollar F up.

31 posted on 10/19/2013 12:06:45 PM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: 43north

“Unfortunately, the only thing they know how to build a program for is voter fraud.”

Hey! That explains why I clicked on “ankle wrap” and got this cool heart/lung machine!


32 posted on 10/19/2013 12:11:06 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: jpsb

With the DemocRATS, SNAFUs are acceptable as long as you’re wasting someone else’s money. The extremist Obama regime has taken government waste to a whole new level.


33 posted on 10/19/2013 12:11:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hold on to your sombrero! Here comes amnesty! The GOP is on a roll!)
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To: dennisw
"He said this on Sean Hanniity radio show yesterday"

I could have built the back end software almost all by myself. I'm not much on user interfaced but I love data. lol, really a small team of 10 or so good experienced people could easily built this is 3 years of less, most likely a lot less.

34 posted on 10/19/2013 12:13:18 PM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
They used campaign staff techies! I need to send them a resume, I am feeling like I let 600+ mil slip thru my fingers.
35 posted on 10/19/2013 12:17:13 PM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: DuncanWaring

Toni Townes-Whitley of CGI, charged with oversight of
the ObamaCare website implementation, also was a classmate of Michelle Obama from the Princeton Class of 1985.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3080945/posts?page=21


36 posted on 10/19/2013 12:21:27 PM PDT by research99
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To: neverdem
“If the exchanges don’t get fixed soon,” she writes, “they could destroy Obamacare.” You need the exchanges to enroll enough young healthy people to subsidize those who are sick and old, which is one of the central features of Obamacare.

Otherwise, premiums shoot up and up, pushing others out of the system — a death spiral that can continue year after year.

What's the problem? Just borrow more money from ourselves.

As long as Congress "budgets" by CRs, Obama will threaten default unless Congress coughs up more dough, and the Collaborators will fold.

37 posted on 10/19/2013 12:24:29 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: JPG

My advice: don’t ride on the front of the train.


38 posted on 10/19/2013 12:26:14 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: neverdem

I had doctor shock yesterday, for an appointment that I made
before obamacare signup started. First, I have been without insurance since approx. 1996, when my insurance premiums went to over 1500- per month. I just couldn’t afford it anymore.

Since then, I have been a self payer. I have never been one to go to a doctor or hospital unless absolutely necessary. In an emergency situation, which I had to use once, (my throat swelled shut and I couldn’t breathe) I went to the emergency room, and I worked out a payment plan with them, and paid in full. I have excellent credit. I pay cash for my prescriptions. I have never asked for handouts or stiffed anyone, nor do I get any assistance.

Yesterday, my doctor (a neurologist) handed me my bill for services. I was SHOCKED. I normally pay $140- cash for my office visit and he told me due to OBAMACARE, my cash payment was now $251-! I am reeling. So, off to get my prescription, and SHOCK again. Due to OBAMACARE, as told to me by the pharmacist, the same prescription that I have been taking monthly for the last 20 years, is double! So,
they are gonna get money out of you one way or another to pay for those that don’t pay a dime.


39 posted on 10/19/2013 12:27:59 PM PDT by IamHD
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To: Regulator
. The only thing to do is flush it all and start over. But they won't, which is good thing. Let it collapse.

They don't think they will be able to scrap it and have a new system running within a year, so they will continue with patches, compounding their errors.

What frightens me is the Collaborators failing to do something with this huge manatee.

40 posted on 10/19/2013 12:31:45 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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