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Originally posted by: pjstroh None of the costs of the exchanges will even begin to touch the costs of the government shutdown that was initiated to try and stop them.
Strange that it costs more to close stuff and furlough people than is does to keep things open and people working. Obamanomics.
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Originally posted by: pjstroh I am a programmer and Don Diego's synopsis cant be any farther from the truth. Implementing a system for the government requires you to interface with lots of other systems ...some built 30 years ago or more. Try getting a web based application to talk to a 1970s database....and coordinate the project with other government agencies in the bureaucracy. It aint easy. it has to talk to the irs to verify income, for example. It talks to other systems to verify citizenship, disability status, age...etc, etc. Many of these external systems need to have square pegs pounded through round holes to get them to play nice....and that is the primary nature the problems to date.
We have to pass this to see what's in it wasn't the worst part. Getting it started 4 years after passing it is a huge failure. One thing you can be sure of is, the IRS will know who hasn't signed up, no matter what excuses you make for interagency interface software problems.
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Originally posted by: pjstroh Im not making excuses for the vendor.
You are making excuses for both the vendor and the government.
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Originally posted by: pjstroh There have been unacceptable bugs and performance issues..and states who built there own system seem to be doing better, albeit part of that is because they have a smaller subset of people hitting their servers.
The system wasn't ready for the singular population of many individual states. It had to start because Obama said it had to start, no negotiations. It's HIS law. Even after the passage of the CR and the debt ceiling increase, it is still HIS law, not open to negotiation. He will, by fiat, alter HIS law as he sees fit, and has already done quite a few times since Congress, breaking Congressional rules, passed the law.
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Originally posted by: pjstroh Its interesting to note the primary objection of Obamacare has gone from....nobody wants it....to....it cant accommodate the huge number of people that do want it. Its a legitimate gripe and one I hope is fixed soon.
