Purposeful sabatoge of healthcare.gov

[saint]

The issues with healthcare.gov are so obviously manufactured by the current administration, I'm surprised I haven't read more people writing about this. Perhaps it's because people aren't intelligent enough to figure it out.

Has anyone wondered by you can't just register your age, sex, family members and get your quote within 30 seconds like you can with other insurance companies? Or with car insurance? It's quite obvious- the administration did not want people to have sticker shock without seeing their subsidies and they also didn't want the press to have fast access to how expensive rates would be.

Another reason why the administration forces users to enter SS and other detailed information: to purposefully create a bottleneck so users can't get rates. Where do you think the information is being held up? In data exchange and verification- steps that should be unnecessary for getting a quote but were included for reasons I already mentioned.

Why would the government force through a website that they were told had major issues and would be a complete failure? Numerous consultants said the system would be an epic failure and that it wasn't ready but Obama wanted what was best for his administration and forced it through knowing the problems it would create.

300M up to possibly 650-700 million to implement the site? I've got a friend who is up high in cisco and he feels strongly it could have been done for several million, perhaps 10 million max. If you search online that opinion is held by many.

What a cluster fuck.

 

[Skulnik]

ObamaCare Website Incompetently Designed as World's First Website Designed to Perform a Dedicated Denial of Service Attack on Itself;
In Shocking Development, Administration Blames Others For Its Failures

First of all, I'm sorry I didn't give you a warning to go find a fainting couch before I put in that hard-to-believe headline that Obama is blaming others for his failures.

I know I just rocked your worlds and stole any sense from your universes. I'm sorry for that.

First, let's talk about how awful this thing is built.

Five outside technology experts interviewed by Reuters, however, say they believe flaws in system architecture, not traffic alone, contributed to the problems.

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One possible cause of the problems is that hitting "apply" on HealthCare.gov causes 92 separate files, plug-ins and other mammoth swarms of data to stream between the user's computer and the servers powering the government website, said Matthew Hancock, an independent expert in website design. He was able to track the files being requested through a feature in the Firefox browser.

Of the 92 he found, 56 were JavaScript files, including plug-ins that make it easier for code to work on multiple browsers (such as Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer and Google Inc's Chrome) and let users upload files to HealthCare.gov.

It is not clear why the upload function was included.

"They set up the website in such a way that too many requests to the server arrived at the same time," Hancock said.

In case you missed it, @johnekdahl noted last night that the administration has reset everyone's passwords in an effort to... I don't even know what. It's a drastic step, though.

Well, I suppose that's one way to try fix this. Generally speaking, the "your username got eaten by the computer machine or lost in the interwebs tubes so choose a different one, and no, we don't know what happened to the original" isn't a best practice solution. If I were a cynic, I might suggest they're just wingin' it at this point.

Now here's where the story takes that shocking turn I mentioned in the headline: I know none of you will believe me, but via NRO, the NYT reports -- I can't even write these words, they are so difficult to believe -- Obama is blaming other people for his failures.

The technical problems that have hampered enrollment in the online health insurance exchanges resulted from the failure of a major software component, designed by private contractors, that crashed under the weight of millions of users last week, federal officials said Monday.
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ecause of the initial failures [of the first step functions of the software], other parts of the complex system have yet to be proved under the intense strain of real-world conditions. And outside experts said that White House officials should have spent more time tending to the computer code and technology of the Web site, rather than recruiting Hollywood celebrities to promote it.

?It?s poorly designed,? said Luke Chung, the president of a database company in Virginia who has publicly criticized the site in recent days. ?People higher up are given the excuse that there are too many users. That?s a convenient excuse for the managers to pass up the chain.?

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White House officials declined to identify the private contractors who had built the account creation function, citing a decision to keep that information private.

As someone once said, upon Obama's reelection as President: "Which predecessor will Obama blame now for his failures?" I guess it's the Obama of 2011.

Oh wait, no, that's silly; that would be confessing to having erred.

The Buck Stops With Unnamed Independent Contractors Whose Names Cannot Be Divulged Due to Privacy Laws.

via @gpollowitz and @jonahnro

Posted by: Ace at 04:46 PM

 

[Skulnik]

Obamacare Health Exchange Website That Does Not Work Cost $634 Million to Design, and Paid to Obama Cronies
Submitted by TommyPaine on Mon, 10/14/2013 - 20:25
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To design a big-time website for a big-time company probably costs around $10,000 to $100,000, depending on the bells and whistles.

So, how much did the Obamacare Exchange website cost?

The original contract was for $93 million! NINTY-THREE MILLION DOLLARS ... to design a website.

And, being a government job, there were cost over-runs. What was the final price?

$634,000,000.

Yes ... SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS ... for a website that does NOT work.

And WHO got paid six hundred million to make a website that does not work?

Obama cronies.

Gee ... ya think these might have been "no bid" contracts?

And these guys say government will bring costs DOWN ... and they actually say it with a straight face!

I just wonder ... are these the same bozos that faked the Obama birth cert? Probably ...

http://www.prweb.com/releases/orangecountywebdesign/bopdesig...

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/10/obama-pals-crafted...

 

[hedgehog]

Skul, ray and I warned everyone here :shrug:

 

[saint]

The silence by the complete lack of information being released by the administration is deafening.

 

[hedgehog]

The silence by the complete lack of information being released by the administration is deafening.

They want one payor system so everyone is dependent on government

 

[saint]

I mean, let's all ignore the partison bs and all laugh/shake our heads/quiver with anger at the following:

a 400 million dollar website and YOU CANNOT EVEN FUCKING LOG IN.

One of the biggest issues is after registering, it then denies your log in. How many applications on the internet require a log in? Have you ever been to one where you couldn't even log in?

Mind-boggling.