NYT: ObamaCare website only the tip of the iceberg of disaster

Hot Air ^ | 8:01 am on October 21, 2013 | by Ed Morrissey

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well,....someone is always to blame when things don't work....and we know it will NOT BE The Obama Administration.

[TigersEye]

Creating a website was the easiest part of implementing 0bamaCare and the FedMob made it the biggest Epic Fail of all time.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I heard that Obama said it was the shutdown that caused the problem.

Who will he blame for the followon problems.

[TigersEye]

If Obama had to delay the personal mandate over this those House Republicans would come out lookin pretty sharp, even outside of talk radio(aka the choir).

And people say that Sen. Cruz and friends failed. They set a trap and 0bungles charged right into it. There is only one door out for him and it's labeled "Cruz Was Right."

[TigersEye]

0bama will blame anyone but himself for this just as he does for everything else. The question is “who is going to buy it?”

[Signalman]

If the GOP can’t turn this o-care disaster into a huge political advantage in 2014 and in 2016 through TV commercials and campaign rhetoric, then they don’t deserve to run this nation again.

[JennysCool]

Well done!

[thestob]

they should have started this morning with 500 people on the capital steps with insurance cancellation letters in hand along with letters showing the level of premium increase....republicans are absolutely clueless about political theatre...it would have been so simple to do, and you would have had real people with concrete evidence of this disaster in their own hands ...but, nooooooo ..these brain dead jerkoffs are locked away in a room somewhere trying to scheme for amnesty ...

[Bob the builder]

You nailed it!!!

[jps098]

Obama has “pivoted to healthcare.”

[CJ Wolf]

Testing? Users will test it, you’re gonna have to use the website to find out if it works. Kinda how they passed the law...

[Starboard]

You make a good point about contracting to fix this disaster. Given the magnitude of the work and the fact that there are many qualified vendors that could do the remediation work, competition would normally be required. And there is NO WAY a real competition of this size and complexity could be done in less than a year’s time. Somebody is cutting corners in awarding this work despite FAR prohibitions against doing such things.

Republicans should be asking probing questions, but that may be too much to expect of them.

Then there’s the question of how to pay for the work. The original system costs around $600 million so its reasonable to assume that this major re-work effort will cost at least a third of that amount. Perhaps more. Where does all this money suddenly come from?

[bert]

Only a fool or a scoundrel would enter a contract to be involved with the fiasco

The fool will fail, the scoundrel will steal the money and run

[Political Junkie Too]

LOL!

-PJ

[fortheDeclaration]

It is time to shrug Atlas, shrug.

[tanknetter]

You make a good point about contracting to fix this disaster. Given the magnitude of the work and the fact that there are many qualified vendors that could do the remediation work, competition would normally be required. And there is NO WAY a real competition of this size and complexity could be done in less than a year’s time. Somebody is cutting corners in awarding this work despite FAR prohibitions against doing such things.

Thank you.

Something else for everyone's consideration - I'm guessing that the Obama Administration is now doing with its attempts to "fix" ObamaCare EXACTLY what Liberals accused Bush/Cheney of doing with Halliburton.

How. Sweet. It. Is.

[TurboZamboni]

[TurboZamboni]

[LibLieSlayer]

The gop/e do not care. As Cruz says... these rinos have been so beaten down over the years that they just have no fight left in them. Some actually are progressive and love this stuff.