Obamacare Exchange Down The Toilet
Ya, that should have been what went down BUT, when you mix Guv agencies and private sector talent you get dogshit and horseshit mixed into a great big pile of greasy grimy gopher guts. No amount of money can fix that kind of Mix. Good thing the Fed is printing new fiat money 24/7 or we might run out of it at the rate the Congress is spending it.
Obama Care. The little plan that wasn’t there.
Total rip-off?!!??!?? That would depend on which side of the funding one was on. Taxpayer-vs-the leeches.
Posted by 0007
05/13/2015 at 08:28 PM
0007 - people like my daughters - umm, not so much. You have to be the right kind of po’ to get yours. Neither have medical insurance (older daughter’s hubby having trouble getting a full time benefits included job (gee, I wonder why that is)) - and not eligible for medicaid. As many people pointed out - trillions for about 9 million (but please note that included in that end number are people like my son, who was on the policy I bought for Dental Ins - who got dumped because of Obamacare and had to get a policy on his own - a red herring caused by Obamacare but used to inflate their ‘success’ numbers) to ‘get’ insurance. Just open up Government funded ‘care’ clinics (which are now THE thing around here) - instead of screwing up the entire damn system - for those too damn cheap or po (whatever does the Indian Health Service, VA, SCHiP, Medicaid and Medicare - do for the po’?) to use. But no, like all things DC they have to go and screw up the entire system and spend trillions to create even more problems and not even fix the original problem. At all. Ever.
Traditional health insurance is a real-time, on-going operation with objective standards and performance requirements that include a continual updating of coverage and family configuration. Governments traditionally fail to successfully run such operations on a wide-scale basis.
Only a government run by people with neither concern for it’s citizens nor a desire to actually succeed in the stated objectives would hire a company that failed in the Canadian health care field to build a similar system for a much larger population.
If they hadn’t been so set on rewarding donors by hiring them to design a new, non-cicular, wheel they could have had eBay, Amazon or both build a parallel version of their tested systems that allow for a very secure environment with very high volume of simultaneous users shopping and paying for third-party products. The additional data to be collected/verified through various interfaces with government agencies and insurance companies would have been an adjunct module.
The first three to six months of intense design/content discussions would have been frustrating to the developers trying to get sign-offs on decisions and agreements with the interfacing entities, bureaucrats are not very good and making absolute decisions. Defining the number of levels of products, prices and the sliding fee scale early in the process would have also been essential. The schedule would have been pushed by 6 months but there still would have been time if the three years they had for at least six months of real testing and fine tuning. The adjunct module would have been developmentally time consuming only because of dealing with more bureaucrats and the testing of the security aspects and the series of almost trivial processes and interfaces.
All of this would have allowed for a lot of publicity, training and familiarization well before launching. And the interface really would have been as easy as “buying an airline ticket”.
But that’s what would have happened if real-world IT people had been given the project. Instead, politicians and bureaucrats went ahead and did what they do best - equated saying something with doing something and believing meaning well and trying hard trumps failure.
