ObamaCare Website Now Officially the Most Incompetent Thing Obama has Ever Done
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 18, 2013 @ 7:36 pm In The Point | 3 Comments
Sure there’s a lot of things to choose from. But I think we have a winner.
The ObamaCare website, which estimates have placed at anywhere from under 100 million to 400 million to just under 300 million to 634 million dollars, not only tops even Solyndra, but couldn’t have been designed any worse if Joe Biden had tried making it in his spare time.
It’s all the worse for Obama Inc. which boasted of being web savvy only to unveil this...
The federal health care exchange was built using 10-year-old technology that may require constant fixes and updates for the next six months and the eventual overhaul of the entire system, technology experts told USA TODAY.
“The application could be fundamentally flawed,” said Jeff Kim, president of CDNetworks, a content-delivery network. “They may be using 1990s technology in 2.0 world.”
That’s okay. They’re using 1890′s economics in 2013.
Recent changes have made the exchanges easier to use, but they still require clearing the computer’s cache several times, stopping a pop-up blocker, talking to people via Web chat who suggest waiting until the server is not busy, opening links in new windows and clicking on every available possibility on a page in the hopes of not receiving an error message. With those changes, it took one hour to navigate the HealthCare.gov enrollment process Wednesday.
Those steps shouldn’t be necessary, experts said.
Not even the part where a donkey turns a wheel that turns the exchange?
The root cause of the problems was a pivotal decision by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services officials to act as systems integrator, the central coordinator for the entire program. Usually this role is reserved for the prime information technology contractor.
As a result, full testing of the site was delayed until four to six days before the fateful Oct. 1 launch of the health care exchanges, the individual said.
So the website was only tested four days before launch by a government agency that had little to no experience with websites on this scale.
How could a plan so perfect have gone so wrong?
“I have never seen a website — in the last five years — require you to delete the cache in an effort to resolve errors,” said Dan Schuyler, a director at Leavitt Partners, a health care group by former Health and Human Services secretary Mike Leavitt. “This is a very early Web 1.0 type of fix.”
Well this whole plan is Hillary’s health care plan from 1993 remixed. So why not give it a 1993 website?
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