Posted on 10/22/2013 10:34:37 AM PDT by privatedrive
Journalist/historian David Halberstam coined the term “best and brightest” to describe the so-called experts who bungled the Vietnam War. It’s an unfortunate choice of phrase, particularly at a time of intense partisan conflict.
“It’s a terrible metaphor,” said Marc Sandalow, a political analyst with KCBS Radio (and formerly the longtime Washington D.C. bureau chief for the San Francisco Chronicle). ”The government should have had the best and brightest working on this website three years ago, but as it turns out, bureaucracy is complicated.”
Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/22/why-a-tech-surge-isnt-going-to-save-healthcare-gov/#PMmGdHgPeJI15EWa.99
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I liken the tech surge to JFK saying, “Before this YEAR is out, we will land a man on the moon and return him safely.”
Good luck with that. :-P
It wasn't bureaucracy, it was politics and corruption.
Search “Galt’s Law”
Oops should be Gall’s Law....although John Galt would agree
I hope President Palin says “Before my 8 years are up, we will send a team to mars to establish a colony”
Imagine the most complicated novel plot in history, something that would make a Russian novelist blush. Then, assign 25 writers, one for each chapter.
Five million lines of code? As one wag said, You can’t assign nine women to have a baby in one month.
You can’t really initiate a private sector solution at this point without delaying the law about five years. Oh, add another 2-4 billion in software costs too.
Obama created a new Deathcare spiral.
Another example of “the low bidder gets the government job”????
Having been involved Operational Testing of software at DoD for longer than I care to remember there’s an old saying, “Nine women can not have a baby in a month”. There becomes a point where there’s no amount of resources you can throw at a problem to get it fixed any faster. Eventually they’ll see that is the case here.
It wasn’t bid.
It was a crony.
Had noting to do with ability, Just like his other crony deals.
Some things you can’t fake.
Software by committee is’nt possible.
You do it with a kernel team, ideally three people, and they pick their help as needed. And needless to say, Obama the thieving retard doesn’t qualify.
Oh, and we'll hire a bunch of guys that have converted toasters and solar powered calculators into computers to make an Internet program using BASIC language.”
There are two separate issues here. One is the simpler technical problem of actually making the website work. As set up, the website is an information collection process, first getting the name, the location and other relevant information FROM the potential client, and only then, revealing the options.
But the information revealed is fragmented and in many instances, either wrong, or filled with so many caveats it is difficult, if not impossible, to make an informed decision.
The second problem is with the array of options made available. The various levels of coverage may have relatively low monthly assessments (which rise sharply with the number of persons included in the family plan), but the “deductibles” reach astronomical levels, resulting in a sum to be satisfied before the first dollar of insurance is payable, greater than the annual cost of the health insurance previously.
A huge swindle, by any standard, but wait, it gets better. Suppose that for any of the services that are actually delivered, some of them come from a facility or professional outside the network that includes all the professionals who agree to accept the payment from that particular insurance program, then the payment becomes the patient’s responsibility alone. This is not even good charity work.
Upshot, NO health care benefits are ever actually delivered, but the individual, who perhaps wrongly thought coverage was provided, is now faced with probably bankruptcy or certainly some staggering bills that may be around for years.
FTFY.
What do you think bureaucracy is?
Typical Death Star fedgov.com software project.
Nothing that endless $$ and time wont fix.
When must this work?? 2016??
Policy issues cannot be solved by Technology, be it pr0n or healthcare.
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”—Thomas Sowell
The Obamadork thinks that 9 women can have a baby on one month.
One can only imagine what a disaster the “revised” code will be. If the dork is lucky, the code will be almost as good as Windows ME.
Technology and libs are most definitely not friends.
Heh!
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