[struggle]

Obamacare might just become the best thing to happen to the Republican party, ahem, I mean the one led by Ted Cruz.

[jpsb]

The article never said what 90’s tec was being used so I think this article is BS. Just a piss poor job of design and implementation. No one would use 90’s tec (Remote Procedure Calls) in the 2010 would of servlets/EJBs.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Assessing the Exchanges - Panic behind the scene

[Tennessee Nana]

how can old technology be expected to handle millions of accounts ???

was it only designed for a few ObamaPhone owning applicants ???

were the rest expected to be “fined” or “taxed” or ineligible ???

ObamaCare is copied from RomneyCare..

This is looking more like Romney’s ORCA every day..

[BitWielder1]

I don't care if they roll out a golden replacement site where everything works perfectly, the federal government should not be doing this.
0bamacare itself is the biggest, ugliest Trojan horse ever devised.

[dblshot]

Looks like some Obama crony took Prince Grigory Potemkin's 1787 solution and applied it to Obamacare exchanges. Something like half a billion dollars has been spent building a facade behind which there is very little reality. I am willing to bet that no one will be held monetarily liable for this mess. I read were one of the main contractors got kicked out of Canada when they couldn't get their national health care exchange (or what ever the Canadians call it eh) working. Maybe we should call it the Solendra Health Care Exchange. How much was kicked back to political committees?

[HereInTheHeartland]

Hopefully the paper punch cards the program is written on are kept in a safe place.

[Mr. K]

And there is already charges that they used copyrighted code without permission.

In other words, they didn’t know how to write something, so they used someone else’s they downloaded illegally

[Red Badger]

Windows NT?......................

[Cincinatus' Wife]

" a new Politico report is as jaw-dropping as anything else mentioned in this post:

Facing such intense opposition from congressional Republicans, the administration was in a bunker mentality as it built the enrollment system, one former administration official said. Officials feared that if they called on outsiders to help with the technical details of how to run a commerce website, those companies could be subpoenaed by Hill Republicans, the former aide said. So the task fell to trusted campaign tech experts."

BUMP

[pallis]

It’ll be even worse once it is fixed. It was designed to destroy our present insurance and medical system and then collapse. Due to the incompetence of Obama and his people, it is collapsing early.

[dforest]

Yeah, but where did the money go? We figured we would get crap because that is what you get from progressives. But who got the money?

[PowderMonkey]

Laugh, if you will. It is a trojan horse, functioning exactly as intended. It is the reason a brave few on Capital Hill risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to stop it.

[InterceptPoint]

Are there any software wizards out there in FR land who might know what this might mean:

"The federal health care exchange was built using 10-year-old technology ..."?

I don't think they are talking about hardware. This is a failed software development program.

So what is 10 year old software technology?

[11th Commandment]

the tiny trickle of enrollees is actually something of a blessing in disguise. Why? The back-end connectivity issues are so terrible, that an avalanche of "successful" sign-ups could cripple that part of the system.

On inside information, this statement is so true. The reason for Obama Waivers was not only about political payback, but that there was NO way the government and contractors could handle the work. The government/contractors still haven't trained everyone. Offices are still under construction.

Reported that if an application happens to come through for a small business it goes to the bottom of the pile because there is nothing set up to process.

The government is so far behind on individuals that there is not way they are ready to process all the entities that must sign up next year when the waivers expire.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Posting this to most Obamacare threads:

Obamacare Site Glitches Shine Spotlight On Canadian IT Giant CGI

A Montreal-based information technology giant has found itself in the middle of an uproar over glitches in the newly-launched Obamacare website, with some pundits ready to blame Canada.

CGI Federal, a division of CGI Group, the world’s sixth-largest IT firm, holds the principal contract to develop and run the federal HealthCare.gov website. The site hosts the health care exchanges where Americans in 36 U.S. states can sign up for subsidized health care. (The remaining states are building their own health care exchanges.)

The U.S. government has paid CGI at least $88 million U.S. to build and support the federal exchange, the Washington Post reports.

But glitches plagued the CGI-built website from the moment it launched Oct. 1.

“Blank boxes where security questions are supposed to appear. Pleas to ‘be patient.’ Error messages galore. Notices that ‘the system is busy right now.’ Web pages timing out before they load. Garbled lines of text riddled with stray question marks,” Reuters reported.

And the glitches had a substantial impact. According to an AP-GfK poll, three-quarters of visitors to the site reported problems signing up.

[Minutemen]

Yep...Obamas baby is born!

[Diogenesis]

More takers for one-way trip to Mars than for Obamacare

[Old Yeller]

Baby hackers can steal this information.

[American Constitutionalist]

Obamacare, the Enron of government healthcare.