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The Obamacare implosion is worse than you think
Washington Post ^ | October 14, 2013 | Marc Thiessen

Posted on 10/14/2013 8:52:34 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

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To: Travis McGee

HAHAHAHA! That was funny..!


61 posted on 10/14/2013 10:04:58 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Is Obama's caddy considered "essential personnel"?)
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To: driftdiver

“They don’t intend to manage a simple web site. They intend to force us into a single payer system.”

Well not anytime soon, so long as the worthless GOP is “in charge” of the House. I guess we can thank The Lord for small favors. At least FUBOCare will remain the steaming turd that is is through the next election.


62 posted on 10/14/2013 10:05:34 AM PDT by vette6387 (i)
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To: stanne

Most of the so called “conservative talkers” are not conservative....and they work for companies that are not conservative


63 posted on 10/14/2013 10:10:10 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Fact Is: GOPe want ObamaCare.)
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To: SeminoleCounty

Ugh. I know.

In the cases of Savage and Bennett, too? I place Bennett in a ‘grew up liberal democrat- can’t fully shake it’ category.

Savage, he gets vindictive toward those who won’t come on his show. Ego.

He gets vindictive after they come on, then won’t come back (that’s worse).

Even worse is if they do come on and they are not the ego stroking type, he excoriates them, but then has more credibility in his position.

Best not to go on, but ...

I guess all these people, including friends, who won’t get on board with the shake up, they don’t understand, the republican party is fine. It has been taken over, thankfully, and effectively, in recent weeks, and the old guard is out.

These people even the two I’ve mentioned, are talking about the republican party of pre filibuster. In that sense, Cruz was off, but only in the sense that there is any hope that the old guard would ever be successful against the democrats, which they are not and definitely are not.

McCain should have retired on running for prez and having lost should be out. He gave that election to Obama. He will never win against the dems.

These guys are out and whatever Cruz and Lee do, let ‘em. They’re doing SOMETHING.


64 posted on 10/14/2013 10:20:45 AM PDT by stanne
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To: henkster

Where is Mr. Incredible when you need him?


65 posted on 10/14/2013 10:26:33 AM PDT by Baseballguy (If we knew what we know now in Oct would we do anything different?)
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To: PJ-Comix
8 Million Hits in two weeks?

VISITS TO DRUDGE 10/14/13

022,985,750 PAST 24 HOURS

906,102,048 PAST 31 DAYS

11,526,757,187 PAST YEAR

66 posted on 10/14/2013 10:26:53 AM PDT by USS Alaska (If I could...I would.)
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To: PJ-Comix
I don't understand this writer's point - refusing to fund Obamacare was the catalyst for the shutdown, which he says is the reason no one is paying attention to the collapse of Obamacare.

The possibility of refusing funding provides people one last hope for an alternative to the sense of inevitability of an entitlement that has been passed by congress and survived challenge in the supreme court. Its fueling opposition.

If this writer thinks there's a chance Obama and his nanny state will recognize that their healthcare law isn't working and chuck it all he must be smoking too much dried RINO dung.

67 posted on 10/14/2013 10:32:50 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: PJ-Comix
(Article) But thanks to the government shutdown, everyone is talking about the implosion of the GOP instead.

First lie. It's thanks to the lie-scribblers at the Washington Post and their complicit JournoList co-liars that strings, chains, lemming-hordes of liberal talking heads can come on Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff, and Charlie Rose's shows and decant their venom.

Liberal journos used to "lean left". They hardly bother with leaning any more -- they just lie, endlessly and without consequences to themselves.


68 posted on 10/14/2013 10:34:11 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Somebody be lyin', y'all.
69 posted on 10/14/2013 10:35:16 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: SeminoleCounty
Most of the so called “conservative talkers” are not conservative....and they work for companies that are not conservative....

I don't think any big company is "conservative" on the subject of employer-paid healthcare. They want it gone, dead, and the moneys dropped down to their bottom lines.

If that means you get stuck with Stalincare or Mengelecare or Molochcare, well, tough. You should have worked up to vice-president like me; I'm all right. The company's got my back.

70 posted on 10/14/2013 10:41:49 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: PeterPrinciple
Results are not measured, have not been, are not, and will not be in their world. Only their good intentions are measured.

Like with the public school system.

71 posted on 10/14/2013 10:42:50 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: Travis McGee

I went to the comment section and there was no options to like the comment..


72 posted on 10/14/2013 10:52:00 AM PDT by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: henkster

And then life in the good ol’ USA starts to strongly resemble the movie “Brazil”.


73 posted on 10/14/2013 10:52:42 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: driftdiver

bump


74 posted on 10/14/2013 10:54:56 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: vette6387

Some people will be pushed that way soon. Its all pushing in that direction, it will be the only way to “fix” Obamacare.

The GOP establishment is supporting it.


75 posted on 10/14/2013 10:58:21 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: GreyFriar

These computer problems are just a small bump in the road to totalitarianism.


76 posted on 10/14/2013 11:07:05 AM PDT by zot
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To: PJ-Comix

Yes, and I’m so excited to punch my SS# into that train wreck.


77 posted on 10/14/2013 11:10:30 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: PJ-Comix

The solution will be for the government to throw more money at it.


78 posted on 10/14/2013 11:12:16 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: PJ-Comix

” the result of structural flaws in system architecture. It is going to take months to rebuild it.”

I have been saying similar things in other posts.

1. They can’t fix it in a couple months. The faster they try to fix it, the worse it will become.

2. When something has a flawed structural architecture, you don’t fix it! You TEAR IT DOWN!

3. In this case don’t rebuild it, just go back to the processes in place before. If they cry “single payer” the answer is that they cannot possibly make it work! Can’t make Obamacare work, cannot make single payer work.

4. This techno-disaster is an embarrassment to the United States all around the world.

5. This intro to Obamacare is a great disservice to the citizens it is supposed to serve. How can Obama and HHS sit there and tell people they have to go through this convoluted mess? wasting how many hours of the time of real people, and putting their private data on the line?

6. The shut down and Obamacare are inherently linked.
The Obamacare “gateway” or “portal” is in relationship to the Barrycades. Tear down these Barrycades! Tear down this Gateway to nowhere!!

7. There has to be an Inspector General or Judge who can shut down the “gateway” to Obamacare as it is not working.

You get the picture.


79 posted on 10/14/2013 11:24:22 AM PDT by AMDG&BVMH (wE)
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To: Slyfox

When did they begin writing the massive software program? What 3 or 4 years ago?


Doesn’t matter when the contract was let.
a) Regulations which lead to the requirements for the program were deliberately not completed and released until after last November’s elections, so that Republicans couldn’t use them during the election. I would guess that jello-firm requirements weren’t available until the spring. That left less than 6 months to design, code, and test. Worse - the requirements were grossly unstable - as late as a week before 1 Oct there were still arguements as to whether they would let people browse without signing up.
b) None of the HHS managers had experience developing large software. There was no integration contractor or office to coordinate the 55 contractors developing the software, and integration with existing Social Security software.
c) the main website contractor was fired from a Canadian job for non-delivery.

Ask any software professioinal, and they will tell you that unstable requirements, no experienced management personnel, and development personnel with a poor track record will guarentee DOOM on a project. And you can’t test quality into bad software - testing reveals errors, and every fix you make has a high probabililty of introducing more errors.

These are the reasons that government agencies almost always hire an integration contractor for large software projects. I wonder if HHS was just plain ignorant, or whether they tried to hire one and no one wanted the job.


80 posted on 10/14/2013 11:25:10 AM PDT by Mack the knife
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