Posted on 10/25/2013 10:38:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Obama administration said Friday it will take until the end of November for the new federal health insurance Web site to be fully fixed, and that a private contracting firm would be managing the effort.
Jeffrey Zients, the consultant brought in by the Obama administration this week to assess the problems plaguing the online health insurance marketplace, said in a conference call that his team had discovered dozens of problems but the site is “fixable.”
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You can’t fix stupid. Especially this level of it.
What's the over/under on that?
Next summer if they’re lucky.
November .. November 2014.
Which November?
2014....maybe?
What year?...........
November, 2016.
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Ditto that, just a BS press release.
Zients was settling into his job as the head of Obama’s National Economic Council when the president tapped him to help rescue the site. The 46-year old is known as a brainy problem-solver with a knack for cutting through bureaucratic knots.
It was Zients, for instance, whom Obama turned to at an earlier point to unstick the “Cash for Clunkers” initiative. That 2009-2010 federal effort to lift auto sales out of the doldrums by underwriting dealer rebates to car buyers had stalled when the computer systems were overwhelmed with requests. Zients is credited with overseeing that fix.
Zients performed a similar managerial feat to break a bottleneck on GI Bill benefits for post-9/11 vets.
“Jeff Zients is a rock star,” said Vivek Kundra, who served as the Obama administration’s chief information officer from 2009 to 2011. “He has an amazing ability to convene the right people, to be pragmatic about problem-solving and to focus the energy of the administration on execution. He can close the gap between the theoretical and the ability to actually deliver something meaningful.”
Besides being the administration’s chief performance officer during Obama’s first term, Zients served two stints as acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The community college could probably have built the site as a class project.
A website can be fixed. What can’t be fixed is our medical system once the obamists have had their go at it.
And if it’s not?
Bwahahahaha!
Jeffrey Zients ?
“I know that guy”
“He still owes me money”
/s
Shovel ready? Yeah, for CANADIANS!
The web site is only as good as the 30-60 different databases that are a part of it.
If they’re that lucky. Given the extreme complexity of the program code used for HealthCare.gov, if that thing is properly running in January 2014 it’ll be a miracle of sorts....
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