Posted on 11/16/2014 8:48:29 PM PST by Olog-hai
The state that served as a template for President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act had so much trouble coordinating with the federal government that it became a model of another sort: ineptitude. […]
Massachusetts was one of several states where the ambition of running their own health insurance marketplace inside a new federal system ran into a harsh reality.
Some, like Oregon and Nevada, folded and decided to go with the federal exchange for the second round of open enrollment, which began Saturday. Others, like Maryland and Massachusetts, fired their technology contractors and are hoping for better results this time.
It hasn’t been cheap. …
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They’re still working on websites? They’re going to be great at running health care. /s
I do large scale ERP implementations, with massive global rollouts.
All of these implementations, especially the Fed one last year, look like they were designed and planned by grad students.
I cannot imagine deploying something like this without HUGE performance testing — and I would hang the cost and of that testing on the selected infrastructure vendor(s).
I saw inline language translations in the underlying code — an approach a 12 YO would take!
200 MILLION? Hire me, next time, idiots!
Burn. Suckers. Burn.
If the private sector corp. needs to make a secure website, it takes a couple of days. With testing.
Just plain stupid and spreading the taxpayer wealth around for votes.
$254 million does seem a tad high for a website. I wonder if you get fries with that?
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