Posted on 10/23/2013 11:55:54 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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There’s a growing consensus on the mid- to late-November time frame by which the Obama administration really, really needs to have ObamaCare’s online portal running smoothly to avoid inducing more death-spiral risks and subsequent industry panic, and all of their plans for public outreach and directing people to call centers and whatnot is only going to get them so far.
“Tech surge” or no tech surge, CNN reports that still more experts and computer engineers are piling on to the suggestion that fixing HealthCare.Gov’s major problems before the end of 2013 just isn’t a feasible task, and that rebuilding the system from scratch would be the administration’s easiest and safest bet:
After assessing the website, Dave Kennedy, the CEO of information-security company Trusted Sec, estimates that about 20% of Healthcare.gov needs to be rewritten. With a whopping 500 million lines of code, according to a recent New York Times report, Kennedy believes fixing the site would probably take six months to a year.
… Nish Bhalla, CEO of information-security firm Security Compass, said it “does not sound realistic at all” that Healthcare.gov will be fully operational before that point.
“We don’t even know where all of the problems lie, so how can we solve them?” Bhalla said. “It’s like a drive-by shooting: You’re going fast and you might hit it, you might miss it. But you can’t fix what you can’t identify.” …
“Projects that are done rapidly usually have a lot of [repetitive] code,” said Arron Kallenberg, a software engineer and tech entrepreneur. “So when you have a problem, instead of debugging something in a single location, you’re tracking it down all through the code base.”
A whopping 500 million lines of code is “so excessive,” says Kennedy, and that a more normal number for a project like the ObamaCare site would lie somewhere in the range of 25 million to 50 million. Dayum.
Admitting that they screwed up and throwing out more than $300 million taxpayer dollars’ worth of work would be one heck of a politically bitter pill to swallow, but this looks like it’s quickly turning into a damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-don’t sort of scenario. Who could’ve seen that coming?
Will the US taxpayer get a 634 million dollar refund from the cronies
who built this beast?
Blowing up the Obama Administration and the DemonRAT Senate would be a better start.
I am officially copyrighting the phrase: Communist Affordable Care Act © (aka CACA because that is what it is CACA)
Everyone involved in its creation and failed implementation is CACA!
If Trayvon’s dad could code, this would be the result.
A website from a clueless thug.
I wonder why the idiots that built this debacle, didn't use the VA system that is already operating and, relatively functional? The enterprise wide software handles interfaces with insurers, CSM, medical records, doctors, is scalable, etc.. The only difference would be the Shopping Cart. Probably cost tops, $1M. Conversion training, etc. would take six months.
Never mind, bad idea too...
5.56mm
Yo CNN, the real story isn’t the website and not being able to sign up. The real story is that if the sheeple could sign up, then they would find out how unafordable the afordable care act really is. But, CNN I suspect you and the folks at the White Hut already knows this and this and the focus on the website is a subtle pivot aimed at distraction.
The Excutives are to blame....
That would be the HHS Superiors.
This has happened many times in the History of Large Companies implementing Large Complex IT projects.
Nothing all that new here.
Although that estimate of 500 million lines of code seem hugely bloated.
***Who could’ve seen that coming?***
Really?
Not only will they not get a refund, but the do-over will cost twice that. Before this is over, we will have dumped $2 billion into a website, and it still won’t work because it will be interacting with systems that are still running UNIX.
Which system might be running UNIX?
To “start all over” is to admit that NOTHING was learned from the disastrous, mandatory Nationalization of 1/6 th of America’s Economy.
Are any of us FReepers really that STUPID ?!
First...how about a “refund” from all those who received money to market and to create this anti-Freedom, anti-American monster? If they don’t refund every penny...off to prison or deported.
The Democrats will be spending One Trillion Dollars for a web site that will never work.
Oh, and I hope and pray that the Techs on the inside sabotage the hell out of it
the same way they're sabotaging the NSA spy facility in Utah.
bloatware maximus
Because there were a whole lot of Obama cronies in the "IT field" with their hands out to grab some of the taxpayer money being given away.
It had nothing to do with real expertise. Same with the Solyndra and the other failed green ventures.
These people know NOTHING about professionalism and expertise. All they know is how to game the system. What do you expect when you have a community organizer in charge?
I have an idea
A website where insurance companies compete for your business, you put in what you need and they all come back with their prices/rates.
Why hasn’t anything like that ever been done before??
////heavy sarcasm
It would be too much to expect any of these Execs to have read “The Mythical Man-Month”
The main contractor is a Canadian firm that doesn't have the best track record according to news accounts. That said, they would just come back and say the requirements kept changing or were incomplete while putting the project together.
This mess the result of an axis of evil - Obama, Reid and John Roberts.
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