> To go all the way up to opening day, have these problems and then offer that five million lines of code need to be redone is, well, I'm at a loss for words.
There was an article on here last week (I think, my memory might be failing to that end) interviewing some individuals who claimed to be former contractors for CGI Federal. They also claimed that CMS, the agency responsible for integration (with no integration experience) essentially demanded that they perform no testing on the system until about 5 days before October 1st. I don't know how true these claims are, but given the nature of this whole fiasco, it somehow doesn't seem all that surprising.
> Look at this in sharp contrast with what I happen to think would have been a far better approach: Free market decentralized healthcare.
Yeah, and the US government seems to favor regional monopolies that almost cleanly map to congressional districts. Maybe there's a correlation and someone's getting a kickback somewhere along the lines...
> Cheaper, faster, better. All three.
> Instead we got this shit.
More expensive, slower, worse.
I do have to wonder. If the government elects to go the route of a single payer system after they've largely screwed up the launch of this mess (and remember, ACA isn't fully implemented--the last bits of the law don't come into effect until 2018), is anyone is going to trust them at this point to do so?
There was an article on here last week (I think, my memory might be failing to that end) interviewing some individuals who claimed to be former contractors for CGI Federal. They also claimed that CMS, the agency responsible for integration (with no integration experience) essentially demanded that they perform no testing on the system until about 5 days before October 1st. I don't know how true these claims are, but given the nature of this whole fiasco, it somehow doesn't seem all that surprising.
> Look at this in sharp contrast with what I happen to think would have been a far better approach: Free market decentralized healthcare.
Yeah, and the US government seems to favor regional monopolies that almost cleanly map to congressional districts. Maybe there's a correlation and someone's getting a kickback somewhere along the lines...
> Cheaper, faster, better. All three.
> Instead we got this shit.
More expensive, slower, worse.
I do have to wonder. If the government elects to go the route of a single payer system after they've largely screwed up the launch of this mess (and remember, ACA isn't fully implemented--the last bits of the law don't come into effect until 2018), is anyone is going to trust them at this point to do so?