[SpaceBar]

I work in IT and I find that 500 million lines of code factoid to be hard to believe.

I absolutely agree. I wrote a large project by myself by hand. A multithreaded digital communication program of sorts which contains an entire DSP processing engine under the hood, various transforms, filters, dozens of protocols, some NASA linear codes and related encoders/decoders all hand written from scratch, user preferences, configuration menus, and a full featured gui to make it look nice and hide the underlying complexity. It took three years to write and I still debug and improve it, and it weighs in at just under 28,000 lines of C. 500 million lines of code to deploy an online shopping experience for insurance policies?... yeah right.

[okie01]

I work in IT and I find that 500 million lines of code factoid to be hard to believe.

The correct number, if I recall correctly, is 5 million lines of code.

[Kansas58]

I am an Certified Exchange Agent, but have not sold or even tried to sell any Obamacare.

In training, they told us that the Obamacare website would instantly communicate with the IRS, ICE, Social Security, Credit Reporting agencies for identity verification, etc.

I KNEW it was BS at the time. I recently went to the IRS with my mother to try and figure out what happened to her tax refund, and it was obvious that the lady at the IRS who helped us, was FRUSTRATED with the delays in her computer access and it took 45 minutes to get an answer, once we were in her office.

[zeugma]

and it weighs in at just under 28,000 lines of C. 500 million lines of code to deploy an online shopping experience for insurance policies?... yeah right.

I suspect they are including the compilers, webservers, and other tools to come up with this stupid number.

... or they just pulled it out of their ...0bama...