Posted on 10/22/2013 9:56:47 AM PDT by chessplayer
For the three weeks of the ObamaCare exchange rollout debacle, the White House has tried to claim that the issues relate to the overwhelming popularity and web traffic at Heathcare.gov. As late as yesterday, Barack Obama himself claimed that “the number of people who’ve visited the site has been overwhelming, which has aggravated some of these underlying problems,” in a speech that mentioned no other causes to the failure. Last night, the Washington Post reported that the Department of Health and Human Services tested the system just before launch with JUST A FEW HUNDRED concurrent connections — and experienced the same failures we’ve seen since:
I wonder what the actual number of people is who tried to visit the healthcare.gov site actually was. If the truth were told, I’d bet a highly successful commercial site such as Amazon.com gets more hits in one hour.
93 Million dollars and all we got was a broken down website.............I hear Verizon has been tapped to fix this megadisaster.
I bet they tell the administration it will have to be completely redone from scratch...................
With the steady stream of people getting dropped from their insurance plans, public sentiment was mounting against the law. They knew that any delay would be even more detrimental.
They didn’t care if it worked or not. They had to get the ball rolling or they feared there would be an all out rebellion.
They gambled big time, and at this point it appears it was the first huge mistake.
The second huge mistake will be that they are banking on young, healthy people to sign up and all indications are that they will pay the penalty which will be much more economical to them.
So sick people or people qualifying for subsidies will comprise the bulk of those who enroll and the system will go under financially.
All told it cost over half a billion dollars.
These people have gotten away with so much lying that it never crosses their minds to tell the truth.
Here’s how a conversation should go:
“What should we say?”
“Let’s tell the truth and suffer the consequences.”
“Okay, and we can start with something about the buck stopping here.”
Here’s how a conversation goes in this white house:
“Okay, everyone, let’s hear the lies you’ve all come up with then we’ll vote on which one we’ll use. And add something about the buck stopping somewhere else.”
The “system” will not go down financially as long as there’s someone there to write the check. Once these people have been given “subsidies”, they’ll never be taken away. The taxpayers are going to provide insurance to the poor and that’s that. What’s really evil is the taxpayers are paying insurance premiums instead of paying for actual healthcare. Everyone is cashing in.
It needs to be if I understand correctly that the current version was so sloppily compiled that it infringes sourcing/copyright.
...”They KNEW it would crash and just didn’t care”...
Do some believe that this whole thing was contrived to set up a single payer system? If that is true, how much power lust would it take for a government to go that far?
The 93 million is what they paid the software company not including outside costs.
After having had to re-write someone else’s non functioning code several times, I have learned that the best thing to do, ie quickest and cheapest, is to start with a blank piece of paper. It is really tough to try and figure out the other person’s logic and way of thinking and programming. Especially hard when it doesn’t work in the first place...............
I have heard and or read in different forums that this code is a hacker’s wet dream come to life...................
Verizon...GREAT...that is who I have for cell phone service. I don’t need to surf the web. I don’t need aps. I just want to make a phone call! At least 10 percent of the time I can’t get or keep a connection in SouthWest Florida. I have been told they are the best provider in the area. Been told just not enough “towers”. How many freaking towers does it take to get cell signals into a major hospital in downtown Sarasota????
It’s pretty much proven this was to shoe-horn us into single-payer. The canadiots who wrote it only know single-payer coding.
Y’all seen that idiot running around FR posting the site link claiming it works now?
Three. One to provide signal, the other two to provide location info to the NSA....................
Obamacare had to get started because it’s all political....and revenue/data gathering based. The money has to roll by the appointed hour.
Of course they knew it would fail..it was designed to do so as it has nothing to do with Healthcare. Obama can still claim he tried and blame it on the usual suspects.
Single payer will end up the “rescue” for all those poor souls without insurance. And the big Insurance companies, currently opting out of the exchange, will pick up all those who can obtain their own Insurance....and this with higher rates.
No matter how one looks at this ...the Government revenue from this will flow one way or another... and the Insurance Companies will continue to swell with their profits....then will be Universal Healthcare....
Then I am “safe” cause if NSA is depending on info they get from Verizon to find me, they are screwed big time. I know where to hide now.
It’s a really old method that goes back to the early days of radio: Triangulation...............
Pre-radio. Used by sailors, or anyone with proper landmarks on horizon.
“How many freaking towers does it take to get cell signals into a major hospital in downtown Sarasota????”
Actually, if your problem is inside the hospital, towers don’t much matter. With all of the noise sources, hospitals in general are notoriously bad for cellular service. The typical outer walls make the issue even worse.
It was never intended to work, the function was something else than to deliver heallthcare.
When Norway did sort of a twin project in the 80’s, the test system failed with light load and powerful Sun workstations. The real system was specced to run on windows with 286 boards.
What they did perect was how to steal a couple hundred million and spread to government cronies.
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