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The healthcare fix that isn’t

Posted on December 2, 2013 | 2 comments

You just knew Wormtongue and his hencethings would claim to have beaten the problems of healthcare dot gov by their Saturday deadline. Sure enough, they did. Claim it, that is.

Howsomeever. Five hundred million lines of code… A ten thousand page rulebook… Management by such as Slow Joe Biden…

“The ‘front end’ user experience may be improved, but the back end apparently still spews out garbled data to the insurers, rendering the whole process useless…Many key features and aspects of the site (actual payments to insurers; small business signups; etc.) have now been jettisoned as too problematic and complicated to repair in so short a time…”

No more than I predicted a month ago on a destroyed blog now far, far away.

Via PJTatler.

UPDATE: Indeed, “…insurers haven’t yet noticed a difference, according to a spokesman for industry lobbying group America’s Health Insurance Plans.”

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Why the fix won’t happen in Obumbles’ lifetime

Posted on October 30, 2013 | 6 comments

It’s this organizational chart for starters. Then there’s the ten thousand page rulebook. But there’s more:

“The scope of Healthcare.gov is staggering. Its 500 million lines of code dwarf the size of almost all known IT projects. According to CNN Money, it took just half a million lines of code to send the Curiosity rover to Mars. Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system has some 80 million lines of code. And a typical online-banking system might feature between 75 million and 100 million lines.”

And, of course, there’s the little matter of the administration’s culture of corruption, lying and thievery. It finally caught up with him, ha, ha. He makes FEMA look efficient. All in all, I’m betting that Obumbles will not see this doggle booned in his lifetime.

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