The Obama administration fixes ACA website - it's fine now

Good point HA, this is the President's greatest achievement and he wasn't even following the progress reports?
When we have a big project launch, we have weekly meetings, with updates on prototypes, beta testing, missed delivery dates, setbacks, etc. It just sounds like Team Obama just wrote checks, delegate it to HHS and go back on the fundraising trail.
This is the biggest change in American lives in decades, probably since World War II, and it looks like no one was monitoring progress.

homeagain wrote:

Walter L Newton wrote: "Communications between the administration and contractors improved over the weekend as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began negotiating agreements with contractors on responsibility and deadlines for repairs, people involved in the project say. They hope to have a plan before a Congressional hearing set for Thursday."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/us/in ... hare&_r=3&

They should have been doing this MONTHS before this website opened. "responsibility and deadlines for repairs" that's how it works in the real world. In this situation no one seems to want to take responsibility. In the private corporate world heads would have already rolled and people fired.

Does anyone trust this project with your personal data and the future of your health care?

"Nevertheless, disarray has distinguished the project. In the last 10 months alone, government documents show, officials modified hardware and software requirements for the exchange seven times. It went live on Oct. 1 before the government and contractors had fully tested the complete system. Delays by the government in issuing specifications for the system reduced the time available for testing."

I always get behind the wheel of my car and figure out later if the brakes are working. In another thread I predicted that the problems were deeper than just a simple "fill out the form" or server load capacities.

I've worked for the Federal government, for 15 years, as a programmer, I'm fully aware of the multitudes or hoops that you are required to jump through. And if there is a kink in anyone of those hoops, the whole process falls into disarray.

The administration and those in charge have used commercial websites and their glitches and held that up to the American public.

Commercial websites rarely try to open, full blown and totally realized. Ebay started on some guys home computer in his apartment, with very little features (I know, I was one of his first registered users).

He scaled the system as he saw demand and added needed features as he saw business opportunities.

The same thing can be said about Amazon, Apple's Itunes Store, airline booking sites and a myriad of other commercial websites that handle millions of transactions.

The administration has admitted to little or no testing of the site before it went live. You just don't do that. That alone shows a total lack of competence in itself.

The internet has been available to the public since around 1992 (I was on it as far back as 1978, yes, the basic infrastructure was in place that long ago, it was called Arpanet/Darpanet, look it up). There are over 20 years of an operational world wide web experience in the private Information Technology community of how to do this right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

The American public deserves better for 600 million dollars. They got squat.

The bolded..... WE,as a nation,have lost all REASONABLE logic......I am an Independent voter (disclaimer here)....IF my first and foremost agenda (as POTUS) was to
leave a legacy of "affordable healthcare for all"......I KNOW I would have made it a priority to
be kept in the loop on the progress of this major piece of my legacy....in fact, I probably would
have been close to micro-managing the project because it would have been THAT imperative and I would NOT want to have failed......the government is well-known for delays,lack of
follow-thru and just good old common sense it is beyond my comprehension
how O allowed this to hit rock bottom....color me livid.

But the problem with Obama, or his administration being engaged in the process is that if it becomes a FUBAR, he/they can't dodge accountability. Just like Hillary and Benghazi... nobody is responsibe and the buck stops nowhere, it just gets passed around like a hot potato.

And If Obama really wanted this to become the AFFORDABLE Care Act, he should have been more concerned about the actual cost of health care rather than the imagined costs of the insurance. INEPT!

I would hope but do not expect that some big government people will learn from this. Government too big will screw up a wet dream most every time.

An elephant is a mouse built to gov. specifications.

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The New Republic is defending the poor launch of www.healthcare.gov by pointing out how badly the launches of other big programs like the New Deal, Medicare, and Medicaid were too. (Just proving our point that big government programs tend to be debacles.)

Another Democrat seeking an Obamacare waiver.......


http://www.9news.com/news/local/article/361651/346/Polis-seeks-insurance-waivers-for-resort-area

Blazer Bob wrote: I would hope but do not expect that some big government people will learn from this. Government too big will screw up a wet dream most every time.

An elephant is a mouse built to gov. specifications.

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So true. The party mascots should be the elephant and the blue whale.

You just have to love CBS news reporters, right on the ball, 3 years late.

If they were paying attention this was well known in 2010 when the law that nobody read was passed and the MSM Bimbos were all praising it. Pretty pathetic but predictable. Go CBS, inform the sheep.

Yes Martha, your insurance rates are going up, way up. Enjoy. But you get a free Flu shot. ($25)

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-5 ... -coverage/

LOL wrote: You just have to love CBS news reporters, right on the ball, 3 years late.

If they were paying attention this was well known in 2010 when the law that nobody read was passed and the MSM Bimbos were all praising it. Pretty pathetic but predictable. Go CBS, inform the sheep.

Yes Martha, your insurance rates are going up, way up. Enjoy. But you get a free Flu shot. ($25)

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-5 ... -coverage/

There was a time when the press was critical/sceptical about those who work for the people (supposedly)... they were there to protect our best interests. Now they are lapdogs for whoever they want in power and they TRUST who they vote for so there's little need for hardball questions. The press needs as big an overhaul and general flushing as Washington does.

Rick wrote:

LOL wrote: You just have to love CBS news reporters, right on the ball, 3 years late.

If they were paying attention this was well known in 2010 when the law that nobody read was passed and the MSM Bimbos were all praising it. Pretty pathetic but predictable. Go CBS, inform the sheep.

Yes Martha, your insurance rates are going up, way up. Enjoy. But you get a free Flu shot. ($25)

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-5 ... -coverage/

There was a time when the press was critical/sceptical about those who work for the people (supposedly)... they were there to protect our best interests. Now they are lapdogs for whoever they want in power and they TRUST who they vote for so there's little need for hardball questions. The press needs as big an overhaul and general flushing as Washington does.

Only if the are democrats.