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Healthcare.gov may be a 'black swan'
Computerworld.com ^
| 10/25/2013
| Patrick Thibodeau
Posted on 10/25/2013 3:43:13 PM PDT by Ramius
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I'm not sure it's technically a Black Swan... Inasmuch as they're supposed to be difficult to predict in advance. With over 50 contractors and a design by committee, I think you don't have to be Nostradamus to have seen this train wreck coming.
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posted on
10/25/2013 3:43:13 PM PDT
by
Ramius
To: Ramius
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system. --
Gall's Law
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posted on
10/25/2013 3:44:38 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: Ramius
The comments are interesting. It lasts a whole six or seven posts before it devolves into partisan bickering.
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posted on
10/25/2013 3:45:08 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: Ramius
The only bird who couldn't have seen it coming was this one...
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posted on
10/25/2013 3:45:31 PM PDT
by
JediJones
(The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yep. Make it work on index cards first. If an analog system can’t be made to work... The digital version will just find failure quicker.
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posted on
10/25/2013 3:48:02 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: Ramius
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posted on
10/25/2013 3:49:35 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Ramius
The Medicare site has been up for years. They could have piggy-backed onto it.
But narcissists believe that anything that came before them is inferior and something they build from scratch will be so much better, because they did it.
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posted on
10/25/2013 3:50:28 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: Ramius
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posted on
10/25/2013 3:51:11 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: Ramius
I know this is just totally out of the box thinking, but aren't there hundreds of thousands, if not a million insurance salespeople across the country? Aren't there company websites that sell insurance each and every day?
Why on earth would they need to make their own website to duplicate the sale of insurance by private insurers to the public? Can't you get your ‘ObamaCare’ compliant policy directly from the insurer and save yourself weeks of headache?
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posted on
10/25/2013 3:52:36 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Fresh Wind; ecurbh
Oh yes. I’m intimately familiar with the “Death March” concept. I was an IT Director in a former life. This was absolutely one of those. It never had a chance of working... from the very first project meeting onward.
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posted on
10/25/2013 3:56:13 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: kingu
I think you can only get a subsidy if you go through the exchange.
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posted on
10/25/2013 4:00:26 PM PDT
by
MissMagnolia
(You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
To: Fresh Wind
It was suggested on another thread that this might have been a death march project. I had never heard the term, but once I realized what it was, I realized that I had worked on one of them. I have been through a few myself.
They all end the same way.
At what stage is ObamaCare?
The Six Phases Of Big Projects
- Enthusiasm
- Disillusionment
- Panic and hysteria
- Search for the guilty
- Punishment of the innocent
- Praise and honor for the nonparticipants
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posted on
10/25/2013 4:03:18 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I work at a major hospital and use CMS and Medicaid systems. I love Medicaid system, pretty slick. CMS is behind on modern times like sending our official letters, payment notices, audit and Cost Reporting letters, etc via snail mail. Medicaid on the other hand, sends all communications via secure file transfer and we an send our files to them, etc.
I wondered why they didn’t use an already built government system for the healthcare.gov website.
But hey, I am sure those programmers know what they are doing, after all they got a 600M contract to build it...so the sheeple would come...snark.
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posted on
10/25/2013 4:05:49 PM PDT
by
Engedi
To: kingu
Or maybe they could have Amazon sell insurance (sarcasm)
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posted on
10/25/2013 4:06:54 PM PDT
by
grania
To: kingu
Lanny Davis was Hannity yesterday. Even he said this should have been built around existing private sector insurers and providers.
BUT that this administration does not trust the private sector.
There were a lot of ways around government takeover of 19% of the economy but they wanted to rid it of the private sector. Thereby eliminating competition which would have driven costs down.
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posted on
10/25/2013 4:09:40 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: Ramius
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posted on
10/25/2013 4:11:22 PM PDT
by
bkopto
(Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
To: Ramius
I think dead duck might be the better analogy
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posted on
10/25/2013 4:12:29 PM PDT
by
Nifster
To: bkopto
Does he look like Alfred e Neumann from the back?
To: Ramius
Contractors describing the web site
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posted on
10/25/2013 4:14:47 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: morphing libertarian
Does he look like Alfred e Neumann from the back? "What? Me worry?" :-)
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posted on
10/25/2013 4:15:07 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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