Do you think it’s possible for them to hire people that actually know what they’re doing and have this website recoded properly in a short amount of time, say six months to a year?
6 months to a year? HA HA. Too late. Not possible. You’d have to start from scratch to get it really fixed.
The basic functioning of this web site should be so simple, that any decent programmers should be able to make it from scratch in 6 months to a year. But part of the problem seems to be that Sebelius and the HHS were extremely slow in getting the specific requirements to the programmers. The other problem is to what extent this web site has to interface with pre-existing government databases like the IRS. That part could be an enormous hassle for the programmers and might not be possible to do in the “real time” way this web site was expected to perform. But stuff like selecting the security questions and password for your account...it’s inconceivable how that could be causing errors, and that indicates the original programmers didn’t know what they were doing.