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HealthCare.gov’s head tech guy is out
Washington Post Wonk Blog ^ | Published: November 6 at 4:33 pm | By Sarah Kliff

Posted on 11/06/2013 4:23:36 PM PST by Lazamataz

A Medicare official who oversaw HealthCare.gov's botched launch will leave the federal government for the private sector, according to an e-mail sent late Tuesday to Medicare employees.

Tony Trenkle is the chief information officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that built the Affordable Care Act's online portal. He is in charge of Henry Chao, a deputy chief information officer at Medicare whose name came up in congressional hearings as the source of key HealthCare.gov decisions.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; henrychao; medicaid; medicare; obamacare; tonytrenkle; zerocare
Whoopsie.

Hey, I know! Let's rearrange the chairs! That's gonna help our ship float!

Here's a big fat sign this STILL won't make the newest 'deadline'.

1 posted on 11/06/2013 4:23:36 PM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

People are joking that Walmart Hired him

see the story about the HUGE glitch today in online pricing.


2 posted on 11/06/2013 4:24:55 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Lazamataz

“Michelle Snyder
Chief Operating Officer
CMS”

and who is she?
Sebelius refused to request the resignation of someone who had been responsible for dissing the Congress. More heads need to roll, and let them not be merely the little guys caught up in it - yes them too, but not only them.


3 posted on 11/06/2013 4:28:33 PM PST by AMDG&BVMH
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To: Lazamataz

Oh no! What a loss!


4 posted on 11/06/2013 4:38:53 PM PST by Deagle (m)
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To: RummyChick
HEY HE CAN APPLY FOR THE BILLIONS..The Government is GIVING AWAY!




5 posted on 11/06/2013 4:42:17 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: Lazamataz; All
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6 posted on 11/06/2013 4:42:31 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: RummyChick

Such a ridiculous government run by such a ridiculous little pimple of a man.

He and his merry little band of imbeciles are sure gonna’ leave a stain on the nation.


7 posted on 11/06/2013 4:43:05 PM PST by Bullish (The only real solution is to abolish liberal democrats forever)
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To: Lazamataz

I think it will be funny as hell if his new employer cuts him down to 29 hours.


8 posted on 11/06/2013 4:43:20 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Lazamataz
A Medicare official who oversaw HealthCare.gov's botched launch will leave the federal government for the private sector

Anyone who thinks this guy is going to find a job in the Private Sector after this fiasco please raise your hand!

I have swampland in Las Vegas Nevada I'd like to sell you.

9 posted on 11/06/2013 4:47:02 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: GreenHornet

Even funnier when he gets forced to use the damn’ website to sign up for Obamacare.


10 posted on 11/06/2013 4:47:50 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Lazamataz
Tony Trenkle is the chief information officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services,

He was a big star in the Obamacare rollout. Not so much now.

Trenkle, Trenkle--little star.

11 posted on 11/06/2013 4:54:44 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: Lazamataz

Private sector = crony capitalism revolving door.


12 posted on 11/06/2013 5:01:14 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I'm not sure why we're piling on this guy. He had an f'n jerk for a boss, with an impossible job, about which he was given no information until just before deadline.

I can live with the inhumanity of it all, though.

13 posted on 11/06/2013 5:20:25 PM PST by chiller (NBCNews et al is in the tank and should be embarrassed)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Whatever it takes to protect The One.

Thanks Lazamataz.


14 posted on 11/06/2013 5:51:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Lazamataz
HealthCare.gov’s head tech guy is out>

OhYeah.
That will fix what is 100% total political ignorance and incompetence. That is not an opinion, that is a fundamental principle for creating large software systems.

In the case of Obamacare and its web site, the underlying problem is described perfectly in Chapter 17 of The Mythical Man-Month, 1995 Edition, Chapter 17, the most respected referene book for the creation of large computer systems :

"In my experience, most of the complexities which are encountered in system works are symptoms of organizational malfunctions. Trying to model this reality with equally complex programs is actually to conserve the mess instead of solving the problems."

The organizational underpinnings for the creation of the Obamacare web site was/is entirely political. And the result is a hopeless mess.

15 posted on 11/06/2013 8:15:53 PM PST by publius911 (At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
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To: chiller
I'm not sure why we're piling on this guy. He had an f'n jerk for a boss, with an impossible job, about which he was given no information until just before deadline.

The biggest problem was that they were not left alone to actually do the job, but rather micromanaged into a hopeless morass of constantly changing political objectives to make the monumental fraud possible.
The result could not be other than failure.

16 posted on 11/06/2013 8:24:51 PM PST by publius911 (At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
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