You can’t fix stupid. I don’t think the ‘RATS will ever get this mess fixed.
What I’ve heard from people that routinely fix software glitches, this could be completely reprogrammed by someone who knows what he is doing in a few days.
Its not rocket science, its just routine business.
This is my area of expertise, "the backroom connection between the insurance companies and the federal government is a disaster." You do not write one line of code until all parties have agreed (at least in principle) on the data model. Without an agreed on data model you have NOTHING and never will have anything. Gov should have said, at some point the the data model dev cycle, here is our data model, use it or you do not get any Obamacare customers. If they do not have an aggreed upon data model they are beyond screwed and someone (or two) needed to be locked up, this is a 600+ million dollar F up.