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‘Tech Surge’ Planned to Fix Obamacare Exchanges
Wall Street Journal ^ | October 20, 2013 | By LOUISE RADNOFSKY

Posted on 10/20/2013 2:10:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday it was bringing in outside help to resolve some of the technical woes that have beset the federally run insurance exchanges, which the agency acknowledged “has not lived up to the expectations of the American people.”

“We are committed to doing better,” agency officials said in a blog post that also said that “our team is bringing in some of the best and brightest from both inside and outside government to scrub in with the team and help improve healthcare.gov.”

Spokespeople for the agency didn’t immediately respond to questions seeking more information about the development, which it is billing as a “tech surge.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cgifederal; failure; healthcaredotgov; obamacare; obamacarerollout; obamacaresoftware; obamacarewebsite; rinocare; serco
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The government offers great job security for the incompetent though.


101 posted on 10/20/2013 8:00:34 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: CommieCutter
100%!!! comes a time when you just have to say it's broken and start over, simply because it's cheaper...
102 posted on 10/20/2013 8:00:50 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: JediJones
But stuff like selecting the security questions and password for your account...it’s inconceivable how that could be causing errors, and that indicates the original programmers didn’t know what they were doing.

Plus there are already third party packages, that already have been thoroughly tested for doing such common things as those.

103 posted on 10/20/2013 8:01:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ken in texas

DING! DING! DING!

We have a winner!

Or, as I like to say to summarize TMMM: You can’t put 9 women in a room and get a baby in a month.


104 posted on 10/20/2013 8:01:49 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Thom Pain
Oh, and I am sure the requirements are well defined and documented, and have been thoroughly vetted against the regs that define the Law itself.

Dude! Where ya been? Requirements are so 20th Century! Relax already!

You're old enough to remember the giant systems integration contract failures of the 80's and 90's. Surely you remember the cure for failure! Redefinition of Success! These ACA guys are way ahead of you on this, the Secretary of HHS gets to redefine everything without having to go back to Congress for much. It's like totally covered!

Consider the classic progression of bad news:
"It is a crock of s--t, it stinks."
--> "It is a pail of dung, and none may abide the odour thereof."
--> "It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide it."
--> "It is a vessel of fertiliser, and none may abide its strength."
--> "It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong."
--> "It promotes growth, and it is very powerful."

105 posted on 10/20/2013 8:02:14 PM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: Fzob

106 posted on 10/20/2013 8:02:30 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: ken in texas
Sounds like most of the managers involved never bothered to read "The Mythical Man-Month".

Reading is hard! Let's go shopping for BMWs instead!

107 posted on 10/20/2013 8:03:33 PM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: All

Guys, is there actually a spec underneath all of this crap? I truly doubt it. As noted above, the big guys, think Amazon, Google, Facebook and others, took YEARS to get is semi-right (and by my lights I really do mean “semi”). This thing is HUGE by any definition. I’ve got experience with Oracle ERP and watched how it took 3 years to get a new major module built and semi-tested. This thing is bigger than that. At least if you do it right. Now if you don’t give a rat about HIPPA, etc. well, I guess you might wing it. Seriously folks, we should beat the Zero administration over the head with this - and as noted above, I have my suspicions regarding the contracting process of this abortion.


108 posted on 10/20/2013 8:06:03 PM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: JediJones
Well, yes, 6 months to a year for the simple registration side. However, that's not the meat. The meat is getting info from the IRS and insurers to give someone a plan within one session, and to interface to any number of other agencies as well.

Anyone can whip up a registration and info-collection website. Well, anyone except these guys. Even under the tremendous user load, it's doable.

However, it is the MEAT that will put the date out five years, minimum.

109 posted on 10/20/2013 8:06:22 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: dfwgator
Plus there are already third party packages, that already have been thoroughly tested for doing such common things as those.

Don't forget the user load. I suppose you could put up an access wall, the portal lands on a farm of gatekeepers, that let you in as available, to the second farm of actual application servers. That is the 'throttling' technique that could work to keep the third-party stuff from dying under the load.

110 posted on 10/20/2013 8:08:43 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“to scrub in with the team and help improve”

Sickening bunch of arrogant *ssholes!

Now they think they are freaking surgeons...


111 posted on 10/20/2013 8:10:43 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: RKV
6 months to a year? HA HA. Too late. Not possible. You’d have to start from scratch to get it really fixed.

Good to know. Because if it was possible you know everyone in Washington and the media would let him get away with spending another 600 million fixing it.

This will be fun to watch indeed.

112 posted on 10/20/2013 8:11:53 PM PDT by CommieCutter
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To: Myrddin

113 posted on 10/20/2013 8:14:25 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Lazamataz
I do doubt this: That anyone could give you tech specs or anything resembling a storyboard.

Gee, I wonder if we're going to see a reference to Gall's Law on CNN or some other media front? Wonder if he's still alive? He was a doctor I think.

I wonder if we'll see the wikipedia entry revised to debunk it as "obviously wrong"...next it will be on Snopes...

114 posted on 10/20/2013 8:15:26 PM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: CommieCutter

If you get your architecture wrong at the start, the thing won’t scale. Then you’ve got interfaces to dial in. And they aren’t easy. Then security. Then load testing. Then mobility. ... For a comparison take a look at the history of SAP, Oracle and the other big ERP vendors. YEARS to get it dialed in. That’s what systems of this scale take. And you have to have real live software engineering. Patches won’t fix what’s wrong here. Now of course I expect the feds to move the goal line.


115 posted on 10/20/2013 8:15:35 PM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: Chode
bring charges against them for fraud...

Extradite them from Canada?

116 posted on 10/20/2013 8:18:14 PM PDT by alrea
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To: SueRae; Lazamataz

“You can’t take 9 women and make a baby in a month.”

That is great.

I always think of a rosebud. You can’t yank the petals open and make it bloom a week early. You’ll just kill it.


117 posted on 10/20/2013 8:21:25 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"our team is bringing in some of the best and brightest from both inside and outside government to scrub in with the team and help improve healthcare.gov.”

you knew they would bring in the Postal Service eventually

118 posted on 10/20/2013 8:23:19 PM PDT by alrea (Under Obamacare "going postal" means you went to see your doctor.)
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To: alrea
hell nothing woulds happen to them even it they were from the US...

but i don't see how charges can't "by law" be brought against them for international fraud

119 posted on 10/20/2013 8:30:45 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Lazamataz

Laz, I was just discussing what will happen with my CPA brother. As he said, any new team always causes more problems because their goals are to:
1) make money
2) not take any blame.

I’m a mech E. who ended up programming. I used to call it the “Oy Vey” moment, when consultants are brought in on any project.

Oy Vey, I can’t believe how stupid these idiots were who started this project. Consultants GET PAID to say that. Heck, I’ve said that as a consultant.

now you and I know that there are always some number of rat hairs in the soup. Some are idiot errors, and some were forced by the budget/time/events. The problem for any fixit team is they have no idea what the legitimate kludges were and what is idiot gigo.

This will be fun, the Obamacare Fixit will be one huge CF, to use an engineering term..


120 posted on 10/20/2013 8:34:13 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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