me: “Hi. I would like to keep my current health care. Is that cool?”
800 number:
me: “Also, I’m okay with my current doctor, so, no need to make any changes there, either.”
800 number:
me: “See, I don’t really need coverage for some of the stuff you guys are asking me to buy, so I’d just as soon look elsewhere, if that’s okay with you.”
800 number:
me: “So. I guess that’s it, then. We done here, or…?”
800 number: “Please hold for the next available representative. Who has been directed to laugh at you. And, depending on where you live, shame you over your obvious racism.”
Uh-oh. Barky is barking. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/10/21/obama-health-care-internet-glitches-health-and-human-services/3142759/
“No excuse”, he says.
He’s also “reaching out to tech experts “.
Shouldn’t he have hired “tech experts” to begin with? I would have thought that $263 million was enough.
Don’t be silly, Spies. He deemed it to be so. Details are for the little people.
Shouldn’t he have hired “tech experts” to begin with?
Some of the problems are undoubtedly with the contractors.
But having been a gubmint contractor in IT, I can assure you that NO contractor would have been able to put that thing together, no way, nohow.
Contractors are wholly at the mercy of what happens on the gubmint side, upstream of their work. Just the requirements phase would have been a white-hot mess, as the gubmint can never get its act together sufficiently to give you a straight answer about the slightest detail.
At best, the gubmint side would have spent its time reworking its mission statement and might have settled on something incoherent and irrelevant about 3 weeks before launch.
Any requirements the developers may have been able to extract from the gubmint side would have been changed every couple of weeks for any and all reasons. They’d have been giving conflicting instructions from different offices, none of whom were talking to each other but all of whom were eager to provide the definitive answers. None of the initial requirements were accurate or relevant, anyway.
Any datasets the developers required would not have been forthcoming for extremely long periods, and then whatever they got was wrong: either in content or format or both. Requests to provide proper datasets would have been unreasonably delayed and still not corrected.
The core assumptions underlying the architecture would have been overhauled multiple times, each time by a muddle-headed bureaucrat who had learned a few IT terms and read an article at Wired and therefore wanted to demonstrate vision.
His replacement would demonstrate similar inclinations toward being visionary, but in a whole nother direction.
Her replacement would have returned to the previous idea but with an inside-out.
None of the work done for each “vision” can be used in the subsequent visions: it all had to be ripped out and replaced whole-cloth.
Some will cry out for better “government oversight,” but government oversight was precisely what screwed things up from the kernel to the UI.
I wonder how many developers up and quit from sheer frustration. 80% turnover would not surprise me, unless the original crew were so inexperienced and stupid that they couldn’t tell that instead of building a system based on logic it was Calvinball with pompous asses calling the shots.
ObamaCare was designed to fail; guaranteed to fail. And we’ve always known what they want in it’s place, and why.
“1-800 number President Obama touted refers people to buggy Healthcare.gov”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2537479
Maybe you should tell them your name is “K.”
I mentioned this on the other thread, but it deserves mention here, too…
404Care’s alternative phone line is 1-800-F1UCKYO. Not kidding. 1-800-318-2596
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/20/little-competition-insurers-some-states-obamacare-plans/2986795/
People in New Hampshire have a whopping one choice, and that one isn’t accepted by the hospital in the state capital, nor the next-closest one. Live in Concord? You’re now an hour away from a hospital that will take your “awesome” plan. Yes, that includes ambulance service, so two hours round-trip.
Good thing they all chose to inconvenience themselves like that, because otherwise Obama would be nothing more than a fucking liar, and we can’t have that!
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Never ever do design work for a committee.
Government-run healthcare for the masses? This, taking off at the same time the USPO is miserably failing; the IRS is politicized by the Only Party as an attack mongrel; the ‘Justice’ Department – DHS has enough hollow-point bullets to kill every American 5 times over; the EPA is killing the vital coal industry; the NEA is brainwashing every student from pre-Kindergarten through High School.
Yep, we just needed more Government.
A panel of doctors were just of Faux chatting about how foolish it is for people sign up for Ocare.. They stated that it is buying a pig in a poke, there are no plans and exchanges, no doctors onboard and no doctors who wish to be onboard.
Today the politicians are talking delay in the rollout until “next year”. I say let it die from neglect. It’s a bad idea, hatched by bad men, and as BT says, designed by committee.
Bad, bad, and bad.
Apparently President Bumbles thinks his call center has unlimited capacity. At least our CEO gives us a heads-up before telling everybody, “Hey, call this number!” on national frickin’ TV.
A pictorial furthering BT’s point
Yeah, people aren’t even being put on hold now. It’s just hanging up on them.
Heckuva job, Barky!
– When Barack is unhappy the whole world must shudder.
“This is what happens when I talk too long,” Obama joked before wrapping up his speech.
– Its a sort of microview of what happens when government does anything.
– But Bumblefuck is not going to stand for this. He intends to wave his kingly hands and make it all right single handedly as all emporors must. So the answer to OCare is you just have to plan on being in the Rose garden when you get sick and then the Wance has your back.
– Here you go Leigh…..
– Apparently the WH is starting to notice the angry pitchfork and torch carrying mobs collecting on the WH lawn: “Sebelius to testify.”
– More House Negro unrest.
Thanks, BBH. I knew she couldn’t just refuse to come out of her room.
A buck says she “can’t recall” a lot.
– Gee CBS, when you say “Didn’t quite turn out that way concerning the massive number of mis-statements Bumblefuck made during the “sell-it to the stupid voters” phase of OCare, is that, you know, sort of the same as “he fucking lied like a rug“?
– Seems even the fawning Lefturd media is starting to crack. With the word go out in Progyardia that the Hildebeast is open for business Jug ears must be hearing the sounds of cult-crash these days, and everyone knows what happens to old Marxists while they’re still alive.
It sure is sad when entertainment moguls with hundreds of millions of dollars are oppressed and mistreated and discriminated against. Jay Z, Oprah…. Why is the lightbringer so cruel?
You didn’t build that Oprah!
– Keep the oceans from rising, hell he can’t even make a website work.
“Kickin’ the can down the road – The story of the Obama administration.”
HTML and enterprise backend is hard.
Good and hard…
But having been a gubmint contractor in IT, I can assure you that NO contractor would have been able to put that thing together, no way, nohow.
They sure as shit didn’t have any trouble cashing their eight-figure checks…
I could have sworn I italicized the quote from di. But then, I swear about a lot of things these days.
– But wait, help is on the way…. “New Rulz” : Fuck the website or the helpline, just send your Hospital and Doctor bills directly to the US Treasury and we’ll pay them, no questins asked, and remember to vote Democrat in 2016.
They sure as shit didn’t have any trouble cashing their eight-figure checks…
As far as you know.
But like I said, I’m not holding the contractor blameless. Sounds like it was a no-bid contract, which smells like first-class cronyism from the off.
– Of course she did, the Progtardians have signaled their approval to depose the dear leader.
Obamacare phone number crashes shortly after Obama tells Americans to use it to enroll
I thought that was simply budgeting the pre-implementation scoping feasibility study for design requirements of the proof of concept.
Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), the vice chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, has changed his mind and now opposes any efforts to grant amnesty to America’s at least 11 million illegal immigrants. Poe said his stance is a specifically a result of President Barack Obama’s style of dealing with congressional Republicans during the recent government shutdown and debt ceiling battles.
“The President has proven over the last few weeks that ‘negotiating’ means conservatives must give in and that it’s his way or no way,” Poe said in an email to Breitbart News.
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Where is the White House getting the money for ObamaCare’s “tech surge”?
newrouter says October 21, 2013 at 4:22 pm Where is the White House getting the money for ObamaCare’s “tech surge”?
– Ooo, oo, wait, wait, I know this one….Ummmmm….um….the taxpayer?
– (Do I win?)
Extortion
Sarah Palin America is suffering from an epic case of Armageddon fatigue
” Ummmmm….um….the taxpayer?”
Nope. It’s called ‘community investment’ now. And the real answer is China. They get the money to pay China back from ‘community investment’.
Save The Knives For ObamaCare: Four Ways To Actually Defund The ACA
“Jay Z, Oprah….”
Oprah told Dear Leader to get bent on Obamacare.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/20/oprah-gave-unequivocal-no-selling-obamacare-report/
Oprah told Dear Leader to get bent on Obamacare.
But not because she opposes Obamacare.
Because she wanted unbridled access to the White House for her network, and they totally went back on their promise to provide it.