1. “I hope they are working day and night to get this done. When they
get it fixed, I hope they fire some people that were in charge of making sure
that this thing was supposed to work.” — former White House press
secretary Robert Gibbs on MSNBC’s “Now with Alex Wagner,” Oct. 14
2. “A thousand Social Security numbers being sent to the wrong people
is not a glitch!” — CNBC contributor Carol Roth on HBO’s “Real Time
with Bill Maher,” Oct. 12
3. “How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website
that doesn’t work?” — House Speaker John Boehner, Oct. 10
4. “Despite the widespread belief that the administration was not ready for
the health law’s Oct. 1 launch, top officials and lead IT contractors
looked us in the eye and assured us all systems were a go. Instead,
here we are 10 days later, and delays and technical failures have
reached epidemic proportions.” — Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) in a
statement, Oct. 10
5. “We’re going to do a challenge. I’m going to try and download
every movie ever made and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare — and
we’ll see which happens first.” — Jon Stewart to Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius on "The Daily Show," Oct. 7
Zero Hedge
Update: Woman nearly faints while hearing Obama explain the "glitches".
Consumer Reports: ‘Stay Away From HealthCare.gov’
Obamacare seeks to segregate patients, doctors by race
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Fortunately, the website lacks O-rings.
Be sure to note that no one, no one, no one, no one has been more frustrated by it than President Obama.
'There's no sugar-coating it: the website has been too slow, people have been getting stuck during the application process and no one has been more frustrated by it than me,' President Obama said.
What glitch? It's running fine. It's Republicans fault and the tea party for shutting down government and bringing our helpless innocent selves to the brink of default.
But you wanna hear something funny? Okaygoeslikekthis:
On teevee a lady is talking about black cowboys and I thought, "I know that! That's Denver." So I watched. Sure enough it is. The lady is going all over Colorado doing splendid Colorado activitahs and at last she's with a cute guy and they're hiking.
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That's nothing, in fact. That's a hill.
There's snow! They slide down. Glee.
Hike to continental divide where it is stunningly beautiful. They're at the tippy top now and the weather moves in as it does every day and the dialoguexxxxxx monologue becomes this:
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The guide says, "I think of lightening like bees. If you worry about bees stings all the time you'll attract bees and get stung. Best just not to think about lightening."
Flake. But what a sweet way of saying, "shut up already.'
We have to move fast to avoid lighting. It hails, as it does. "What should we do now?"
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OMG, MamaM... it really is all about Obama, isn't it.
Some of the stuff I've heard... they didn't even start coding until sometime in 2013 because the company that got the contract didn't have the parameters until then. It's hard to believe that could possibly be true.
However, the claim is that the Obama administration didn't want the actual information out there before the 2012 election, so it was put off until the start of '13.
What reality exists where an IT business would accept that short time frame for something this huge? What sorts of deadlines were written into the contract?
The guy below Sebelius (I think... some name like Chuo or something) said it couldn't happen, it couldn't be done. In response to this he was told that failure wasn't an option.
This is what passes for management? I was in a bit of a conversation with someone on Google + that seemed to think that because Chuo was told not to fail, that it all became his fault. Now, I'd agree that it's his fault he didn't *walk*, but does Obama really think that he's Jean Luc Piccard?
"Make it so."
And it happens? He's done this crap over and over... no concept or clue that armies can't be moved the day after he says to move them, no concept or clue that industries can't just produce something over night, no idea that a brand new, ginormous government service needs to actually be built.
I've heard people ask why Sebelius was in charge of this when she doesn't have the requisite experience for this type of tech management of a project this size and I wonder... is it because anyone who *does* do this sort of project management took one look at it and said, "Oh, h*ll no."
Ya wanna quote?
Try this one:
In a world full of really bad ideas, this one's right up there with the Captain of the Titanic telling the helmsman, "Hey, pull over, we're low on ice".
Synova said...
He's done this crap over and over
Without crap, he's got nothin'.
Here's an article that talks about the potential for computer security problems:
CSM
ObamaCare Denial Bigger Than Tech Surge:
"The president did say that he was mad about Healthcare.gov’s problems. But that anger didn’t seem to be connected to any solutions other than to draft more tech and IT people to work on a website. The technical problems appear formidable. According to the New York Times, 'as many as five million lines of software code may need to be rewritten before the Web site runs properly.' But the problems go deeper than technical issues.
One major problem slowing repairs, people close to the program say, is that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency in charge of the exchange, is responsible for making sure that the separately designed databases and pieces of software from 55 contractors work together. It is not common for a federal agency to assume that role, and numerous people involved in the project said the agency did not have the expertise to do the job and did not fully understand what it entailed.
That means this is not just a question of 'glitches' and 'kinks.' Rather it is one that is just as much about governance, incompetent bureaucracy, and accountability. But all the president wants to talk about it how great his plan is and how unfair it is that everyone is talking about its website."
As Synova said, it really is all about Obama. At least for Obama.
It has been about three and a half years since the PPACA was signed into law. That's a little less time than it took from the bombing of Pearl Harbor until the Japanese surrender. The logistical and organizational challenges THEN were immense, even ignoring the actual fighting. All that was ancillary to the war in Europe, which got most of the attention from the Atlantic allies.
How come our current leaders can't do the relatively trivial task of developing a web site in that same time frame?
Goddamned hoarders and wreckers, sabotaging Obamacare!
Read about the Obama voter in my town. He is, not unexpectedly, completely stupid. he is also holding a cat in the picture and so looks even more stupid.
I read the story and laughed and laughed.
"Robert Coates of NW Rochester, Minn. was a strong supporter of President Obama and his Affordable Care Act until he saw he only has one plan option for he and his wife in the MNsure insurance exchange as a resident of Olmsted County.
"It's very, very disappointing," said Robert Coates, a 61-year-old retired school psychologist who wants to replace a private health insurance plan that's being phased out. "I was really looking forward to getting some better coverage for less monthly, and it looks like it's going to cost me almost twice as much, not to mention the lack of choices."
Oh man, I almost bust a gut.
At least Syria and the IRS are off the front pages.
Pogo: screw him - he's only 61 and retired from a job as a school spychologist- his pension is one of those that is bankrupting our cities and states.
I worked for an auto insurance startup that failed big time due to complex regulations devised by a state legislature and crappy system programming that underestimated how complex the regulations were. We had $250 Million an annual premiums by year three but the project and our company's reputation never recovered from the ginormous problems we had out of the gate.
I watched the video of the girl in the red dress who people said was going to faint.
Her face was happy. Here eyes were batting, then fluttering. She was smiling, breathing in and out and in and out rapidly; in through her nose, out through slightly parted lips. Her color changed; her face looked moist.
She didn't faint, she came. All because of Obama. It's a feature of BarryCare, because Barry cares.
Don't laugh.
There are people who were at them who say women climaxed during Hitler's speeches, too.
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