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GOP asked tech founder, ex-fugitive McAfee to diagnose Obamacare
NBC News Business ^ | 10/21/2013 | Jeff Pohlman and Dan Mangan

Posted on 10/22/2013 12:57:25 PM PDT by JediJones

"I promise you this cannot be fixed without at least scrapping the front-end processing, which is more than half of the systems," he said. "Seriously, if it were me and I were running this and I had been asleep in a hospital for two years and woke up to this mess, I would say OK, throw it out and start over. But start over in the right way."

HealthCare.gov wasn't too ambitious an idea...but the government has overpaid for it.

"It's not that it's an ambitious program — it's that it's an ambitious program considering the hallways that people have to march down in order to implement, and these hallways are the way you have to do things in the government, that are defined in these massive books of regulation or rules that you have to adhere to in order to compete in a government contract,"

McAfee was scornful of CGI Federal...

"It sounds a little bit absurd,"... "The Canadians are not well known for being high technologists compared to the Americans."

"You know we have a number of high-technology companies here in America," he said. "You know Silicon Valley has nothing but such entities that are competent, efficient and certainly more experienced than the Canadian companies...And so it would seem very strange for an American government to seek outside help in developing a complex system. And yet that's what they did. I don't know why, but it's bizarre."

"If you Google CGI, you'll find that they were in serious trouble with the Canadian government with health-care systems that were not delivered on time and were nonfunctional. So you would have thought that someone would have looked at that past history and said, 'I don't think that we can go with them.' I mean, I wouldn't have chosen them."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: health; mcafee; obama; obamacare
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1 posted on 10/22/2013 12:57:25 PM PDT by JediJones
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To: JediJones

Even a crooked half-cocked hippie developer like McAfee can see what’s wrong, and everything he said is dead on


2 posted on 10/22/2013 1:01:13 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: JediJones
Well I know why.

If an American company had written the code, we'd have another wickileak type scandal and some poor bastard would end up dead or in prison.

3 posted on 10/22/2013 1:01:42 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof .... but they're true)
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To: JediJones

I love how NBC refers to McAffee as ‘ex-fugitive’. Why not refer to Obama as ‘ex-crack dealer’


4 posted on 10/22/2013 1:02:02 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: JediJones
Canada was chosen because.. Well, HERE'S a clue:

CGI, the Canadian company whose U.S. subsidiary built the failed Obamacare website, was once contracted to build a federal gun registry for the Canadian government, Breitbart News has learned http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/22/Obamacare-Tech-Firm-Built-Canadian-Gun-Registry

5 posted on 10/22/2013 1:02:03 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: JediJones
And so it would seem very strange for an American government to seek outside help in developing a complex system. And yet that's what they did. I don't know why, but it's bizarre."

Follow the money, you twit.

6 posted on 10/22/2013 1:02:06 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: JediJones

Secrecy was more important than function. You can’t let the dumb Democrat base know just how badly they were being screwed until it’s too late. Whole legislative careers can be built on fixing Obamacare.


7 posted on 10/22/2013 1:03:39 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JediJones
Now there's a great question to ask at the next White House press conference: Why was CGI Federal given the contract for the Obamacare website?

I'll bet it has something to do with campaign contributions. Anyway, it would be interesting to hear Jay “Carnival” Carney's answer.

8 posted on 10/22/2013 1:03:48 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: JediJones

“I don’t think that we can go with them.’ I mean, I wouldn’t have chosen them.”

Bombshell: Federal judge suddenly green-lights lawsuit that could stop Obamacare in its tracks....

it’s going down!

http://tinyurl.com/obamacargone


9 posted on 10/22/2013 1:04:10 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: JediJones

Are the Democrats taking issues with [GASP!] someone’s checkered past?

Will they now apply the same scrutiny and validity-to-critique standards to BJ or Bammy?


10 posted on 10/22/2013 1:04:19 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Phony President)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

And the Canadian gun registry is one of the many large s/w projects that are listed as examples of failures of large s/w projects now.


11 posted on 10/22/2013 1:04:41 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: JediJones

Who got the 634 million dollars?


12 posted on 10/22/2013 1:07:15 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: JediJones

high profile silicon valley loose cannon nerd alert.

someone in the msm needs to demonize this guy again stat.

(will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?)


13 posted on 10/22/2013 1:07:40 PM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: JediJones
The Canadians are not well known for being high technologists compared to the Americans.

And I bet at least half of the tech he's ever used was designed in Canada.

14 posted on 10/22/2013 1:08:03 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
I've also considered the United Nations/Agenda 21 and the NAU (North American Union) a possibility. A United Nations alliance of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico all merged as one entity similar to the EU in Europe.

This could be an Agenda 21/UN/NAU project where health care is made uniform in all 3 countries as one, to include gun registry.

Doctors asking about gun ownership is about to go into overdrive.

15 posted on 10/22/2013 1:08:20 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: knarf

Why not make it easy for everyone and have the NSA do it..


16 posted on 10/22/2013 1:09:03 PM PDT by ken5050 (Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
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To: JediJones
"And so it would seem very strange for an American government to seek outside help in developing a complex system. And yet that's what they did. I don't know why, but it's bizarre."

Maybe because it's harder for Darrell Issa to bring Canadians before Congressional oversight committees.

17 posted on 10/22/2013 1:10:22 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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18 posted on 10/22/2013 1:11:20 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: JediJones

MacAfee will just shoot critics....like that guy in Belize. The guy MacAfee is accused of shooting owned the former Tailgaters Restaurant at the Univ of Central Florida. Needless to say...it went under after its owner was mowed down


19 posted on 10/22/2013 1:11:43 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Fact Is: GOPe want ObamaCare.)
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To: JediJones
"You know we have a number of high-technology companies here in America," he said. "You know Silicon Valley has nothing but such entities that are competent, efficient and certainly more experienced than the Canadian companies...And so it would seem very strange for an American government to seek outside help in developing a complex system. And yet that's what they did. I don't know why, but it's bizarre

Can you say KICK BACKS?????

20 posted on 10/22/2013 1:12:24 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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