I liken the tech surge to JFK saying, “Before this YEAR is out, we will land a man on the moon and return him safely.”
Good luck with that. :-P
It wasn't bureaucracy, it was politics and corruption.
Search “Galt’s Law”
Imagine the most complicated novel plot in history, something that would make a Russian novelist blush. Then, assign 25 writers, one for each chapter.
Five million lines of code? As one wag said, You can’t assign nine women to have a baby in one month.
You can’t really initiate a private sector solution at this point without delaying the law about five years. Oh, add another 2-4 billion in software costs too.
Obama created a new Deathcare spiral.
Another example of “the low bidder gets the government job”????
Having been involved Operational Testing of software at DoD for longer than I care to remember there’s an old saying, “Nine women can not have a baby in a month”. There becomes a point where there’s no amount of resources you can throw at a problem to get it fixed any faster. Eventually they’ll see that is the case here.
Software by committee is’nt possible.
You do it with a kernel team, ideally three people, and they pick their help as needed. And needless to say, Obama the thieving retard doesn’t qualify.
FTFY.
Typical Death Star fedgov.com software project.
Nothing that endless $$ and time wont fix.
When must this work?? 2016??
Policy issues cannot be solved by Technology, be it pr0n or healthcare.
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”—Thomas Sowell
The Obamadork thinks that 9 women can have a baby on one month.
One can only imagine what a disaster the “revised” code will be. If the dork is lucky, the code will be almost as good as Windows ME.
Technology and libs are most definitely not friends.
Heh!
Team Obama relied on the audacity of hope for their Healthcare.gov website development. They didn't even think it was necessary to test the system before rolling it out.
How's that Hope'n'Change™ working out?
If the application is fatally flawed to begin with then all the IT resources in the world won’t save it.
Its purpose is to create a list of people that don't have health insurance. The people that signup on healthcare.gov aren't going to have health insurance and won't get it. That list is going to be given to the IRS so they can collect fines for not having insurance.
The other purpose of Obamacare is to fully implode the health care system so Uncle Scam can nationalize the whole thing. It'll probably implode the whole economy. Good thing they spent the past ten years setting up the DHS, TSA, and NSA to take on the American people.
Will never work.
Throwing more people at a code problem will most likley make the problem worse. The best path in this case would be to pull the system off line and rewrite the system from scratch.
If you try to patch it no telling what unknown bugs and errors will be introduced. Often times hidden from view until someone stumbles across them. I wouldn’t trust my information to that website! Wanna bet its not secure!?!?!
Cause even when it does work all you find are plans 60% more expensive than what you had, with $9000 deductibles and no clue as to whether you are getting a subsidy?
The denouement as presented in the posted article:
“. . . a number of web-based entities will emerge in the private sector — both startups and established companies — to offer online alternatives for consumers to shop for health insurance.”
So as I understand it, the government decided to replace individual, supposedly inefficient private sector insurance choices with an efficient, centralized public-sector site, which now is going to be replaced by individual private sector sites that will make up for the inefficiencies of the government’s alternative. Is that about right?
Frederick Brooks: Adding people to a late project makes it later.