How bad is the launch of healthcare.gov, the Internet front end of ObamaCare? Jay Leno is now joking that it's easier to join al-Qaeda online than it is to sign up at healthcare.gov. And he's right.
Slowly, it's dawning on the left that ObamaCare (and Obama's presidency) is dependent on "just a website." And Peggy Noonan is trying to convince them that it really is a disaster of Titanic proportions.
Some on the left are already trying to control the damage by shifting the blame to those greedy private contractors who were hired to implement it—as if they imagine that a National Department of Information Technology would do such a better job.
Along these lines, others are describing this as a failure of "neoliberalism," the Clintonian middle way between capitalism and socialism that relies on things like means-testing of welfare entitlements and reliance on market mechanisms and private contractors. The idea is that this attempt to combine government with private insurance made the whole system too complex—whereas it would be so much simpler for the government just to take over the whole system and pay for everything directly. "tilizing 'the market,'" in this argument, "can be far more cumbersome and inefficient than the government just doing things itself."
This is an absurdity. If dealing with a website and private insurance companies is so horribly complicated that it fails instantly, how is the government going to deal effectively with doctors, nurses, hospitals, medical researchers, drug makers, and millions of patients?"...
This is an absurdity. If dealing with a website and private insurance companies is so horribly complicated that it fails instantly, how is the government going to deal effectively with doctors, nurses, hospitals, medical researchers, drug makers, and millions of patients?"...
Bingo
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
"Some on the left are already trying to control the damage by shifting the blame to those greedy private contractors who were hired to implement it—as if they imagine that a National Department of Information Technology would do such a better job."
That's it! We just need a new cabinet level Department of IT with a new cabinet secretary. Maybe a $25Billion budget to start, lots of new computers, and some conferences in Las Vegas every year. Yippie
If you want to be, press one. If you want not to be, press 2
Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
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That's it! We just need a new cabinet level Department of IT with a new cabinet secretary. Maybe a $25Billion budget to start, lots of new computers, and some conferences in Las Vegas every year. Yippie
You joke, but you know there are Democrats already talking about doing that. Yes, the source is my ass.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
Basic issue...which also applies to the Bankers, Financial Managers, lawyers , and MBAs on Wall Street - the "manager/clerks" have no skills in the IT arena and really look down on the "geeks".....surprise, surprise.....GEEKS rule and the soft professions are just so much "lunch time" subjects......the GEEKS are out of control so the clerks hire more inept dumbed down clerks to manage the problem (massive numbers of clerks and a few Geeks)........and sheeple pay for all ot it......revenge of the nerds indeed.....
