Obamacare Threatens to Implode - Its software problems might get ironed out. Or they might not.

National Review Online ^ | October 18, 2013 | Michael Barone

[FlingWingFlyer]

You can’t fix stupid. I don’t think the ‘RATS will ever get this mess fixed.

[JPG]

Still plenty of room on the Obamacare train! Climb aboard!

[headstamp 2]

ObamaCare isn’t about software glitches. It’s about a system designed to implode upon itself thereby setting off a clamor for single-payer.

[fortheDeclaration]

But if Obamacare’s software crashes, the consequences will be catastrophic — for the nation and for the Democratic party.

What is good for the nation is bad for the Democrat party.

[Leaning Right]

premiums shoot up and up, pushing others out of the system

That probably won't happen. Instead, the subsidy levels will be raised to keep the premiums "affordable."

Obama will save face and the federal deficit will balloon even more. In other words, business as usual in DC.

[Travis McGee]

[DJ MacWoW]

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[TomGuy]

Medicare has been doing online enrollments for years. They even have online enrollment in Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplements. The Medicare Advantage programs vary from county to county and state to state.

Why could they not have just modified that Medicare online software? It surely would have cost less that the supposed $634 million they spent for the current Obamacare mess.

To quote Judge Judy: “Follow the money.”

It might be interesting to see where that $634 million went.

[taildragger]

I just had a wild @$$ idea...

What if the same programers that were hired to take out Iran's Newkleer program ( Moo$$add ), actually worked on this project? :-)

Oh, that would be delicious payback for Commander Negative Uno who has been sticking it in their back since 1/20/2008....

[Gritty]

If a private firm’s software fails, it can go bankrupt. No one else much cares.

The government is already functionally bankrupt. No one else much cares except Constitutionalists.

[dennisw]

Frank Chan runs a company that knows how to design this software. He has done 30 projects like this. He said the site is customer-UNFRIENDLY illogical and his company would be embarrassed to charge more that one million to build such a site

He said this on Sean Hanniity radio show yesterday

[bigbob]

I read where some young genius wanted O to hire Facebook to fix the OC website.

[DustyMoment]

“At what point,” she asks, “do we admit that the system just isn’t working well enough, roll it back, and delay the whole thing for a year?”

NO!! Make them go through it and let it be the disaster it is becoming. If it is delayed for a year, it gives them time to fix it and the Dems come away with a major coup.

Right now, the conservatives need ZeroCare to fail on an astronomical level so that voters remember in 2014 the disastrous crap that was shoved down their throats by Dems. That's how conservatives (hopefully, Tea Partiers) will make major gains in the mid-terms!!

[Regulator]

The IT work went to insider firms that specialize in jumping through the hoops and ladders of government-procurement rules

And the crap that comes out of places like that is lightweight, out of date, laughable KludgeWare that is comically bad.

Like what they got.

It can't be fixed. Been in projects like this before. The only thing to do is flush it all and start over.

But they won't, which is good thing. Let it collapse.

[Mike Darancette]

Hey Deimmycrats: It’s not the technology, it’s the math stupid.

[Mike Darancette]

I read where some young genius wanted O to hire Facebook to fix the OC website.

Actually the enrollment and back office software from one of the major insurance carriers like Anthem would be a good start.

[Tupelo]

I wonder which Obamabot is down in the basement of the White Hut brainstorming a way to blame Ted Cruz and the Tea Party for sabotaging Barrycare. Once they are able to do that, they can and will roll it back, and/or delay it for a year or more.

[FrdmLvr]

Whew! What a mess! Hey, let’s just go with a single payer system! /sarc

[Mike Darancette]

NO!! Make them go through it and let it be the disaster it is becoming.

Millions of Americans have already lost their existing insurance as of 1/1/14. There is no going back only going away.