NYT: ObamaCare website only the tip of the iceberg of disaster ( October 21, 2013)
Obama says 'nothing to worry about. He has assumed control to save the day'
If Obama had to delay the personal mandate over this those House Republicans would come out lookin pretty sharp, even outside of talk radio(aka the choir).
Some sunshine might break through.
Expecting momentarily: “Wouldn’t it just be easier to have a single-payer system?” “... as long as we have to re-write 5,000,000 lines of code. Would make things so much easier and less costly”
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And the shutdown was not nearly long enough to wrtie the original 5 nillion lines of code.
These problems are just the beginning; only scratching the surface. The complexity of Obamacare is simply overwhelming. There are literally thousands of pages of requirements and laws, many of which have ramifications that nobody knows how to address. The real horrors will begin when the security failures start to emerge.
Anyone familiar with John Gall’s work on systems (and his book Systemantics, or the Systems Bible) knew this was going to be the mother of all IT disasters, not to mention the many other “complications” with Obamacare.
For those who are interested Gall famously stated:
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.” He will be proven right — again.
It's not the website or the marketplaces.
The law itself is what's "buggy."
It doesn't work. It never worked.
-PJ
There’s another big consideration as well: Federal contracting law.
Republicans, if they were smart, would shift to questioning whether Federal contracting law and the FAR are being followed in trying to fix this disaster. My bet us that they aren’t, and the Administration is actively ignoring, bypassing and breaking the law in a desperate attempt to get this mess fixed.
I’m sure once the website is fixed, the rest will go swimmingly. Everybody knows the intitial website is by far the most difficult part of running a couple trillion dollar fast paced multi-layered complex healthcare law frought with deadlines, penlaties, tied to the IRS, real time payments and integration with hundreds of millions of people, payors, healthcare contractors, rules, regulations, individual cases and infrastructure deterioration.
Yes. Swimmingly, I’m certain. What could possibly go wrong?
Creating a website was the easiest part of implementing 0bamaCare and the FedMob made it the biggest Epic Fail of all time.
If the GOP can’t turn this o-care disaster into a huge political advantage in 2014 and in 2016 through TV commercials and campaign rhetoric, then they don’t deserve to run this nation again.
It is time to shrug Atlas, shrug.