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Insiders who worked on US health website describe high stress, complaints about major problems
Washington Post ^ | October 22, 2013

Posted on 10/22/2013 4:23:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As questions mount over the website’s failure, insider interviews and a review of technical specifications found a mind-numbingly complex system put together by harried programmers who pushed out a final product tested by the government and not private developers with more expertise.

A review of internal architectural diagrams obtained by the AP revealed the system’s complexity. Insurance applicants have a host of personal information verified, including income and immigration status. The system connects to other federal computer networks, including ones at the Social Security Administration, IRS, Veterans Administration, Office of Personnel Management and the Peace Corps.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: failure; obamacare; rinocare
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This has become a major embarrassment to the President. The site doesn’t work AND people are seeing that the health insurance they didn’t want is going to cost them more than they want to pay.
They are even reduced to astroturfing with fabricated success stories. My brother even posted one.


21 posted on 10/22/2013 5:51:57 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: relictele

22 posted on 10/22/2013 5:54:45 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Funny thing. Even if a state decided to not establish its own exchange, and leave that cost to the federal department, the residents of such states still get the federal subsidy. Should it be that way?


23 posted on 10/22/2013 6:32:41 AM PDT by Rapscallion (What he calls "transforming" is actually destroying.)
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To: Bloodclot

Unknowable requirements = unworkable systems


24 posted on 10/22/2013 6:42:06 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Rapscallion

No, and I believe there is a lawsuit challenging the situation. Interesting if it works, because without subsidies, ain’t no one gettin on that train.


25 posted on 10/22/2013 6:51:10 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: AppyPappy
They are even reduced to astroturfing with fabricated success stories. My brother even posted one.

Not that I am advocating a misinformation campaign or anything like that, but it would be amusing if thousands of people posted such fabricated stories.

The stories would need to be just a little bit fanciful for maximum effect. "Gosh, but this Obamacare is wonderful. I signed up with no problem. I got full family coverage for just $12 a month. And for an extra $5, I got vet coverage for my dog Wahoo."

26 posted on 10/22/2013 8:06:45 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/228724841.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue

LINK to another source for this article if WaPo article behind a “limited articles” wall for some FReepers.


27 posted on 10/22/2013 1:09:19 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

which basically means that programmers had unlimited access to all the tables in the various government databases, such as the Social Security (and quite possible bank accounts) . . .

They may not get the Obamascare site going, but they will be very successful in their new hobby of identity theft . . .


28 posted on 10/22/2013 1:20:30 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: Fresh Wind

“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”—Thomas Sowell


29 posted on 10/22/2013 2:13:51 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Typical liberal incomeptence. They could have contracted Amazon or Google or Yahoo (all ran by left wing libs) three years ago to build the websites.

They handle more traffic in one hour than Obamacare since inception.

Of course, the product still sucks.


30 posted on 10/22/2013 2:17:06 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Park Service employees "following orders" should be SHAMED and SHUNNED!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A working website would be like any of the innumerable mortgage calculators. Put in your age, number of dependents, location, and whatever minimal health information such as smoking/pregnancy is required. Out pops a set of prices with benefit levels. Put your favorite price(s) in a second calculator with your income from the last 1040 or other tax filing, and out pops your subsidy, if any. I could code that in one day, but then people would know what was going on, and that would defeat the purpose of the $500M DeathPanels.gov website.


31 posted on 10/22/2013 2:29:56 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you like Obamaware, you’ll LOVE Obamacare.


32 posted on 10/22/2013 2:32:27 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Pollster1

Well stated.


33 posted on 10/22/2013 2:35:55 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ain’t gonna git any easier.


34 posted on 10/22/2013 3:53:44 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama: A dark spot in this country's history.)
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