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You’d think the left would care they outsourced it to Canada. So much for their wanting to keep jobs in America.
There is nothing about his administration, since it’s takeover, that has met any sort of a road test. They are only about pulling things out of their asses as they go along.
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REFEERENCE--EXCERPTS A November 30, 2012 Cato.com report indicated the Insurance Exchanges will cost Twice What it Costs to Administer Medicare (NOT what he's told Americans).
ONE STATE'S LAUNCH COSTS Then in March 2013 CATO.COM reported "The Cost to Launch the California Health Insurance Exchange is $910 million".
So far (2012) California has received $910 million in federal grants to launch its new health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"). The California exchange, "Covered California," has so far awarded a $183 million contract to Accenture to build the website, enrollment, and eligibility system and another $174 million to operate the exchange for four years.
The state will also spend $250 million on a two-year marketing campaign. By comparison California Senator Barbara Boxer spent $28 million on her 2010 statewide reelection campaign while her challenger spent another $22 million.
The most recent installment of the $910 million in federal money was a $674 million grant. The exchange's executive director noted that was less than the $706 million he had asked for. "The feds reduced the 2014 potential payment for outreach and enrollment by about $30 million," he said. "But we think we have enough resources on hand to do the biggest outreach that I have ever seen."
For additional perspective....private insurance marketing site, Esurance sells not only health insurance but also things like homeowners and auto insurance across the country......putting my zip code into their system along with my age, they offered me 87 different health plans from all the big players in my area.
Now granted, the new health insurance exchanges are more complex because they have to interface with Medicaid and the IRS as well as calculate subsidies. But the order of magnitude difference in what it cost to launch esurance compared to the California exchange is pretty big.
Privately funded Esurance began its multi-product national web business in 1998 with an initial $5.5 million round of venture fund investment in 1999 and a second round of $34 million a few months later.
The start-up experience of other major web companies is also instructive. Facebook received $13.7 million to launch in 2005. eBay was founded in 1995 and received its first venture money in 1997––$6.7 million.
Even doubling these private investments for inflation still leaves quite a gap.
SOURCE http://www.cato.org/blog/californias-obamacare-exchange-costs-56-times-more-launch-facebook
corrupt government thugs siphoned off the money and had some third rate outfit (maybe themselves, some “company” they quickly set up for the job) invent the web site
I write software for a living- this thing looks like it was programmed by government bureaucrats
oh wait...
The natives are restless. Check out Healthcare.gov Facebook page for a few laughs.
With all of the true believers who are still drooling over the prospect of “single-payer” health care, I cannot say this is a bad thing. The ineptitude on display here may penetrate some of their thick little skulls and make them realize that government-run health care will be nothing but a mess of red tape and inefficiency.
They have their little utopian fantasies of what government-run healthcare will be like. I can do nothing more than encourage them to read up on how government-controlled health care works in other countries—but all they do is read the fairy tell stories cherry-picked by our media.
Anything in government which does not go well is a direct result of lack in funding. The bigger the failure the greater the lack of funding. This fact creates a disincentive to succeed at anything that is done by government. The trick is to grab the brass ring of funding by getting a congressional hearing over your failures in order to get the press to get the word out.
Maybe it was designed by Solendra staff!
How many signed up? “The administration refuses to post those numbers”.
They’re not glitches. They’re human stupidity, expressed in computer code.
Anytime software is "recoded" the regression testing should be completely rerun. "Recoding" at this point is not a good thing as far as working software goes.
I’m in IT. The developers and I have been discussing this since yesterday. The consensus is that it is a major CF and will probably take a year to be functional with only a handfull of the features they were trying to give it.
It suggests that the dems may cave not because of tenatious R.s, but because it won’t work anyway.
It is looking like a textbook example of wildly unreasonable management driven dates and shoddy BA work. I say that as a BA.
The website, like obamacare, is designed to fail from the start.
Three years and virtually unlimited funds to finance and acquire whatever technical expertise and people was needed and this is what they accomplished. I don't think adding some servers and tweaking code is going to help.
obamacare is nothing but the largest slush fund in history, paying off the public sector unions, consulting firms, favored 'charities' such as Planned Parenthood, activist groups such as the NAACP, and other orgs too numerous to name. They - obama and company - truly don't give a damn if anyone is able to sign up. Meanwhile we have the political-fight-of-our-lives to stop this trillion dollar robbery.
Three years to get this thing launched, and they're "hoping in the near future to have a seamless process". What's the matter, Kathleen? Forget to include a contract provision for acceptance testing? I don't wish many people ill, but for this Nazi b!tch I'll make an exception. I just can't wait for the day that the undertaker stuffs a pound of cotton up her ass.
Hubby’s experience working with young college grads in IT and with young foreign programmers is that they are all clueless about how things work and how to make things work. The people hired to oversee or manage such projects are all clueless wonders. The directors are clueless wonders. Etc. LOL
I am wondering if they hired foreign company because all the good programmers for this sort of thing in the US are either employed doing something profitable or are conservative. They may have feared someone would deliberately sabotage the system. Hahaha
(Sitting in hospital waiting for son to have surgery).
Ping.
Major league farce. Now these people are responsible for your medical care. Because we all know the government can do things better than anyone else. Maybe Mr. Obama will give one of his magic speeches, and that will cure everything.