Former official: Admin refused to bring in outside help for ObamaCare website for fear GOP....

Hot Air ^ | 4:41 pm on October 17, 2013 | by Allahpundit

[Sacajaweau]

why isn’t everyone screaming because we hired a Canadian firm to develop the software.....

[LyinLibs]

[LyinLibs]

[Viennacon]

I cannot wait for this thing to just fall apart. To think we got so worked up over something that was such a disaster, it wouldn’t even function anyway. This antichrist legislation was still-born.

So much for Obama’s legacy.

[tbw2]

I had a discussion with someone that Obama might have wanted the shutdown for the first few weeks of the site roll out so that the Obamacare enrollment problems could be blamed on the shutdown.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Unbelievable!

There will be billions spent over the next years to get this fiasco working.

In the early days of the Data Processing Industry there were some Classic busts of major companies spending years and going thru enormous money and manpower to get much simpler database applications working.

From those efforts ...cam the efforts to condense time to meet deadlines by throwing 9 men at a project that represented 9 man months to finish....thus theoretically gating it done in one month.

>Professional Project Managers Know this little scheme WELL by ignorant top level executives.(Politicians would be even less understanding)

[onyx]

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[USNBandit]

I am a bit skeptical about parts of this story. I think the reason the website is failing is that they either hired a company that can’t do the job, or they put specifications on the website that made it impossible to program.

[GeronL]

so even this is the Republicans fault.

lol

[onyx]

This is gold.

Thanks so much, Ernest_at_the_Beach!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Former official: Admin refused to bring in outside help for ObamaCare website for fear GOP would subpoena them...and today Carney didn't want to get nto a discussion of a meeting on Benghazi with James Rosen because it would provide a segment on Fox News - how pathetic is an administration that determines its policies and practices based on avoiding problems with their political adversaries rather than on what's best for the country????.....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

On Fox Special Report. Juan Williams tried to blame the failures on lack of MONEY from the Republican House.

[Vince Ferrer]

I had a discussion with someone that Obama might have wanted the shutdown for the first few weeks of the site roll out so that the Obamacare enrollment problems could be blamed on the shutdown.

I don't think you could deliberately plan to do something this bad, unless you had someone take an early source code bundle out of the source code control, build it, and release it.

[acapesket]

THAT my Friend WAS the point!
This is a FUBAR so we have to fix it with single payer

No offense, but it’s not Rocket Science if you comprehend the Evil.

Hard to do, but so true, Sorry if reality is hitting us all in the face!

[RightGeek]

[TigersEye]

This antichrist legislation was still-born.

Rosemary's Booby.

[Lmo56]

I think the reason the website is failing is that they either hired a company that can’t do the job, or they put specifications on the website that made it impossible to program.

CGI, a Canadian firm, was the contractor - the SAME contractor that the Canadian government FIRED in 2012 for delivering an unusable healthcare platform, waay LATE, AND overbudget ...

[cableguymn]

When it fails, and it will, it’s designed to, we won’t be going back to the old system. we will be going to single payer.

[Ingtar]

They also stole an open source, limited database to drive it.