Posted on 10/22/2013 9:02:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
THEY ARE USED TO BUILDING A SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM.
No competent programmer in his right mind would touch this blivet. You can’t fix bad design.
Well, you can't have everything for 650 million...
Gawd that price cracks me up. It’s insane.
More tax dollars down the tubes.
I know that's the conventional wisdom, and the wet dream of every liberal. But even with a single-payer system, you still need SOME kind of system to administer it. (And by system, I mean either automated, manual, or hyrbid.)
How long would it take to implement that? And why would anyone in their right mind say, "This partially-government-managed system wasn't so bad, I trust the government to get it right when they manage the entire healthcare system!"
Wouldn't they need a law, at least? Could the House be snookered into writing that law? Would such an action be Constitutional?
“Obama to hire The Best and the Brightest IT Experts to Fix Healthcare.gov?”
Who did they hire to write it in the first place?, Larry, Curly, & Moe?
Was this money appropriated by Congress?
You crack me up.
The health insurance industry I recall supported it's passage because of the two mandate's $$$$ to them, but are obviously now finding things they dislike about it.
This disaster sounds like your typical massive Fedgov software project where the requirements grew endlessly in number and increasing complexity and made the chances of it working smoothly in any reasonable amount of time hopeless, and if stories are correct they imposed a unrealistically short schedule for secrecy, a sure way to create a design that must be thrown out and much of it re-worked.
“Obama’s already spent a half billion dollars on this mess ... He didn’t start with people who knew what they were doing because with dems it’s always cronies and incompetents first...”
Rest assured, the next IT team will also be cronies.
Someone who knows (not sure who) said it should have cost around one million to build the website. Where did the rest of the money go?
Where will the next 500 million go?
I remember back around 1998 or so when my corporation switched to a new computer system which was favored by our German owners.
I forget what the system was but it cost us $18 million and they naturally provided all the IT teams to work with our programmers and designated department supervisors.
They were on site for 18 months training everyone who would be using the system
Considering the vastness of the system, the info to be stored and the types of scheduling and reports that could be created, it was far more complex than what our govt is trying to do. And far cheaper too.....
“Where will the next 500 million go?”
My guess is to left wing weasels farming out there best IT folks from Yahoo and Google.
I see you kept the Mullet. Good for you!
1. Handle millions of users or at least fail gracefully for the ones who try to log in after the processing limit is hit.
2. Allow users to create accounts, verify their identity using industry standard methods, enter in far too personal of information and look through an inventory of possible policies in the low thousands range to determine which are applicable to the customer.
3. Pass the information in a standard format to the actual selling companies because this is just a sales front end like Travelocity rather than the actual airline.
This isn't a "best and brightest" project. Landing people on the moon with a computer having 80 kB of total memory (RAM and ROM) and a 1 MHz processor was for the "best and brightest". Other than the ability to handle a load of 300 million customers, this requires "minimally trained in web programming", which the Obama administration didn't even hit.
Wait a minute...I thought Clinton mental midget Sturgeon General Joycelyn Elders told us we were going to lose our “best and brightest” because of AIDS...and lack of funding...or something...
Great Leader should call on the NSA IT department. They have no problems tackling much more difficult computer & high-tech related projects. Maybe he doesn’t believe in promoting from within.
That’s the central thesis of Frederick Brooks’ classic book, “The Mythical Man-Month,” which perfectly fits this situation, as pointed out by Matt Yglesias at Slate. The most famous axiom from the book, described as the “Bible of software engineering,” is Brooks’ law, which states that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
“Men and months are not interchangeable,” Brooks writes. “When schedule slippage is recognized, the natural (and traditional) response is to add manpower. Like dousing a fire with gasoline, this makes matters worse, much worse. More fire requires more gasoline, and thus begins a regenerative cycle, which ends in disaster.”
The first instinct of anyone who needs to get more done quicker is to add more people. But particularly when it comes to software, this notion is far from reality. Software projects are hard to split into easily defined tasks, and they require an immense amount of communication and management to complete. Adding more people makes these issues massively more complex.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-tech-surge-issues-2013-10#ixzz2iVRmBs4C
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