ah Judge yer honor Im busy this month and perhaps next month could I come back in the SPRING??
will this guy pull a "snowden" and skip town?
oh how I wish....that Barack Hussein Husseini Obama would.
Posted on 11/08/2013 4:31:07 PM PST by Libloather
The White House’s refusal to make a top technology official available to Congress is drawing some heat on the Hill.
The White House declined this week to make Chief Technology Officer Todd Park available to testify at a House Oversight hearing next Wednesday on the rollout of Healthcare.gov. White House Assistant Director for Legislative Affairs Donna Pignatelli said Mr. Park is currently too busy helping fix the troubled healthcare website to appear, and suggested he testify in early December instead.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
“Pulling him away from that work even for a short time at this stage would be highly disruptive and would risk slowing the progress that has been made thus far...”
Is he the guy that rides the bicycle to supply the electricity to power the website?
Wasn’t there some woman who did the same thing? She was testifying before Congress and said she had to go because she had another appointment?
Jail them. Make them BEG to testify. Enough with the disrespect they have for our country!
Get him on Skype.
Eliminate that 7 minute travel time to the Capitol.
boehner, leading the irrelevant congress and I hate to disparage the term leading with such a pathetic lush.
No worries. It’ll still be hopelessly broken then. We’ll wait right here.
What a joke as if this tech chief is actually debugging or testing or writing code. This jerk is no doubt a two bit hack who couldn’t find his rear with both hands in his back pockets. The only thing he could add is that he recommended against releasing on Oct 1.
Too busy my arse. He is quaking in some one’s boots . period.
nah he has the coffee, soda, and pizza cart....
You are absolutely right. One box left.
I have a theory. Some companies in the U.S. build websites for clients for thousands of dollars but they “farm out” much of the coding work to India for pennies on the dollar, hence, huge profits. I would not be one bit surprised if this is the case on the HC website. I know someone that attempted this on a complicated personal website.... the price was fantastic but there was a huge problem with their comprehension of the functions of the website.
Shut off the power to the building Todd Park is in. Well, that’s just me. ;>)
“ASKING” doesn’t work with the dems. Either force, or force…. and force some more.
Controlled application of force is the sincerest form of communication.
Well said.
;>)
Good theory! All should take note of this bit of info from this overpaid, over educated IT nerd’s wikipedia page:
“Prior to his career in government, Park was the co-founder of two successful health information technology companies. He began his business career as a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton.
Park co-founded athenahealth with Jonathan S. Bush in 1997 at the age of 24. In one interview, he noted that his goal at athenahealth was “Healthcare IT, not technology sitting there naked and expensive and not very effective and efficient at actually helping, but technology utilized to help re-architect the business and care processes in healthcare to make it more efficient and effective and to help consumer-directed healthcare and pay-for-performance move along more expeditiously.
In 2008 he co-founded Castlight Health, named by the Wall Street Journal as the #1 venture-backed company in America for 2011.
Park also served a volunteer senior advisor to Ashoka, a global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start a venture called Healthpoint Services, which brings affordable clean water, drugs, diagnostics, and telehealth services to rural villages in India. In 2011, Healthpoint Services won the Sankalp Award for the “most innovative and promising health-oriented social enterprise in India.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Park
So this guy is all about health care based databases. His “specialty” if you will. This will be some good testimony to watch...
A little bit OT, but maybe not as per your very interesting theory; here’s an interesting article from the Atlantic about all this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/behind-the-bad-indian-coder/280636/
Comments are very enlightening, especially if you happen to be in IT (as I am).
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