That’s the only logical conclusion available when you consider that the creators of this federal boondoggle included a rule book so vast and so complicated that not even the software for the program’s 36 insurance exchange web sites works. Nor is it likely to anytime soon.
“These regulations are often called ‘business rules,'” computer programmer and PJMedia blogger Richard Fernandez writes, “and they have to be implemented in software. The Obamacare ruleset is now reportedly eight times the length of the Bible and still growing. This has had unavoidable results…
“If it’s designed to provide cheap and quality health care then maybe we’re S.O.L. since some things seem doomed from their conception to fail due to some fundamental violation of the rules of physics or mathematics. As a health care system it appears perverse. But as something else … why…”
It certainly seems to have been designed to fail and the only reason for that would be to allow the Democrats to do what they’ve wanted to do since Ted-the-Red was their sachem: Dispense with health insurance entirely and nationalize everything. Doctors, hospitals, drug companies, the works. Want an operation? Call the 800 number and wait, and wait, and wait…
UPDATE: At the very least, the exchanges software was botched by the usual politically-connected cronies, according to this InfoWorld piece, provided by Mr. Goon. I still contend that could have been intended all along as a feature, and is not really a bug.
MORE: Thus far (Oct. 19) the administration is either lying about what has happened or is refusing to talk about it. And his lapdog media also is silent. How amusing. Mr. Transparency. Mr. Bring-Us-Together. What a phony.
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I shall leave aside the second part of Fernandez article, the one where he says that the scheme was for taking away money and concentrate power etc. Not because I disagree, but because it is less relevant to the first question: namely, could this work?
The scheme as presented in the picture, is ridiculous. Usually these are done to impress the higher management with the sheer all-embracing awesomeness of the gizmo, not in order for somebody to understand it. Any person that claims to look and to understand it should be shot on the spot.
Normally a graphical presentation like this should be (for day-to-day operational purposes) be broken into small readable pieces, each one covering a limited area of the whole and be explainable in simple enough words. As it was, without doubt, done by the designers of the software.
Saying this, there is a rule I never tire to repeat: computerizing chaos will only result in computerized chaos. Meaning that if this invention (health care system) was a stillborn, no amount of programming will help it.
There is another side to that story: the end users, the patients. If the end users will not be able to understand and to operate the system, it will mean the same as if the system didn’t work from the start.
And if it takes thousands of pages to define the way the system should be working, I seriously doubt anyone could put it in a correctly designed and programmed system in a limited period of time.
Only time will show which one of possible failures, including Fernandez’ suspicion, is true.
The second part of the Fernandez article seemed too obvious for me to get excited about.
The first part will determine if the second part gets a chance at all, and so far it looks like the answer is no. Computerizing chaos reminds me of garbage in, garbage out. If the designers don’t understand it, how can a programmer? Not to mention the user.
Yet it supposedly was the Dem’s holy grail. Which is why I think it was intended to fail in order to pave the way for nationalizing. We’ll see.
Indeed, if the Reps don’t take back the Senate and keep the House next year, we’ll see a lot of things, not only in Obozo’s remaining two years but the Lizard Queen’s eight. I think I’m glad I’m getting close to checkout time. I will leave this twaddle to you young uns to worry about.
Just came by to add a relevant article:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/e-government/how-federal-cronies-built-and-botched-healthcaregov-228724?source=IFWNLE_nlt_blogs_2013-10-14
Garbage in/garbage out is, in fact, complementary to the “computerized chaos” and doesn’t replace it. Together they create a total and absolute shutdown.
Certainly seems to have shut down much of the sites. Thanks for the link. Like the article says, if they ever get this mess running the next thing to worry about is what it will do with your personal information. Not mine, however. I don’t have to play so I ain’t gonna.
Don’t matter if it works or not. It’s gonna be forced upon the nation unless you are an obama crony group.
“…and we could be totally free to do anything we wished to do except die…”
Paraphrasing Dylan in Gates of Eden
Whether it works or not is irrelevant to the Dems. The length and confusion of this is to them opportunity to ride to the rescue with fixes that include more regs and statutes to refine and increase their power. The obvious danger to them is political backlash, but they’re betting they can weather that. After all they and Obama have pulled off the trick seeming to be against “the Man” even though they are “the Man”.
You might think of this as the “Mother” of all light rail projects. Everyone knows it won’t solve anything, everyone knows it will cost multiple times the stated estimate, everyone knows it’ll take longer than expected (ie almost forever), but it proceeds on anyway( think Big Dig).
“the ‘Mother’ of all light rail projects.”
Heh.
So far, anyway, they can’t force it on us if we can’t register for it. Unless they start mailing out paper forms. They’ve fouled up the digital ones.