Monday - November 11, 2013

FIFY, hundreds of millions saved

3 kids rewrite ObamaCare over the weekend for fun ... and now it works.

Holy ass burgers.

Even as President Obama has issued a constant refrain of how upset he is that his Obamacare website doesn’t work and promises that he’s on top of the fix, three 20-year-old website designers in San Francisco made a working Obamacare website using Healthcare.gov’s own code. They did it in only three days.

The three web developers who created the site, HealthSherpa.com, programmed it to do much of what Healthcare.gov, the Obamacare website, is supposed to do.

The enterprising young men whipped up their version of Obamacare in just days working in their off time.

Unlike the Obamacare website, Ning Liang, George Kalogeropoulous and Michael Wasser’s new site shows Americans the info they really want to see. Signing onto their site will show visitors healthcare plans and pricing that is available. All you do is enter your zipcode, and there it is.

The three are continuing to tweak their site to give visitors even more information, too. Just after their site went live, they added a section that will help visitors find out if they qualify for a tax subsidy.

The only thing the site doesn’t do is connect visitors directly to the insurance companies so that visitors can actually buy a policy.

So these three guys can create a website that does the same sort of things that the Obamacare website is supposed to do and they did it in only a few day’s time? Yet Obama has struggled for years to create a broken, mess of a site that no one can use?

Two thirds of a billion down the drain for shit, and three CHILDREN can fix it in a weekend, just for shits and giggles? Notice that they’re being called “web developers” out of politeness, but these 3 aren’t even in college. They’re just kids ... with ZERO actual professional experience as programmers, debuggers, or testers. And no, they didn’t re-write the code from the ground up; they merely looked at it and figured out how it ought to have been put together in the first place. Which is FAR MORE than the folks doing the actual coding could do. So let’s call this a massive step in the right direction.

And yeah, it may only do 80% of what the “real” program can do ... but it can do it at a cost of ZERO. After 72 hours of tweaking. 3 kids did for free in a couple days what hundreds? of Canadians couldn’t do in years, not even for more than half a billion dollars.

So what I want to know is, when do the arrests start for this massive fraud? After $643 million wasted over years, I think we deserve a mighty grand Perp Walk don’t you? Because we’ve been robbed. And then let’s get at least $625 million back. Strip their assests and send them to jail to rot.

Posted by Drew458     on 11/11/2013 at 06:47 PM   
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