Last night a re-tweet originating I think, with Ms Malkin connected to the hilarious Chad the Obama/Obamacare enroller activist reached me which claimed that the entire Obamacare network was going to be PULLED for the weekend.
This was being done to ‘improve’ our experience. Of course I have documented the entire week’s frustration with a system and a product I had intended to use, and hoped would work.
At this point I am unaware of any report ANYWHERE of someone using the federal exchange system who has successfully logged in, gone all the way through to being notified they have completed a profile/account and been able to FIND INFORMATION about the ACTUAL PRODUCTS, let alone purchase a product. Certainly no one in a news organization has uncovered one, and the most significant part of the CHAD story is that the federal govt could not IMMEDIATELY tell themselves that CHAD had NOT purchased (through, btw, the CA system, not the federal one). They could not adequately access the internals of their own database? Really?
Thus my conclusion that despite all the time and money and hoopla, the system is unready after 3-4 years, and certainly was not tested properly.
Well, this morning, despite my disbelief regarding Ms Malkin …
The log in is not available. Draw your own conclusions.
If the federal people with the responsibility for this have not been looking at spinning up another development firm and another IT firm since Tuesday night, THEY should be fired, or transferred to the FEDERAL TEA COMMITTEE WHICH tastes and rates teas once a month.
Call me naive, but I am still shocked at how much of an utter failure this system has been. This is no glitch. This is a complete rollout failure.
Let’s see what they can do with a weekend away from clients who are all shopping, if not buying.
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Any energy expended on complaints about ObamaCare web site problems is a diversion. Even if signups went flawlessly, by far the more important issue is that ObamaCare is still being imposed on us.
Since the federal government can print an infinite amount of money, and has a monopoly on the use of deadly force, it can eventually overcome every single obstacle to implementing web signups. Apart from how many hundreds of millions of dollars were paid to Canadian company for the software, there is no accounting for the billions of dollars in fully functional software that will be rendered redundant when private health insurance companies are put out of business by deliberate government policy.
I couldn't DISAGREE more. At first I felt the way you did anon.
But as the week went on and my outrage at this process grew .. something was revealed.
Check out the govt facebook page on this. a revelation.
If the ability to sign up is a complete failure, NOTHING CAN BE IMPOSED.
If the ability to sign up improves enough after a long frustrating time to allow sign ups, and then the product is revealed to be, as I found from the in state info system, horrifically expensive and completely dependent on subsidies to make it REALLY expensive instead of impossible ... the entire clanking structure will be, as Obama is in foreign issues, IGNORED, and this signal achievement will stand for what it is.
A bad idea, poorly implemented by people whose practical competence was measured by ideology
Let's cut thorough the BS. Obamacare was designed to fail. Period. Even Reid admitted it.
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/08/10/Senate-majority-leader-admits-ObamaCare-is-just-a-bridge-to-single-payer-socialized-medicine
Aug 10, 2013 - "ObamaCare was designed to fail"
So let's stop gloating and figure out their next step and how to stop it. The discussion should be how they plan to make Obamacare a single payer system. Can they convert the AFCA into it without any changes to the law? Do they have to run it through Congress all over again to make it a single payer? What will be their strategy? How will they dupe the American people to accept it? or will the citizens demand it?
The only way I can see a single payer emerging directly from a failure of Obamacare is if it is widely used ..and dominates the market in terms of fees and then by limiting competition this way, pvt insurance companies atrophy.
Rather, I expect this to permanently damage health care if this keeps going like this, and for ever more divisive finger pointing and blame game escalation in the environment making solution impossible.
We need one system (R or D, Tea or Progressive) or the other to FAIL beyond argument to get past this point in american society.
I expect a boiled frog process of violence in the streets along the way.
The Gracchi -> Caeser.
The documentation of this process by blogger Epaminondas is priceless, not to mention fascinating.
I admit I don't comprehend the endgame here. Either they are hopelessly inept or malevolently destructive, a good case can be made for either and only time will tell. This will be great source material for future analysis.
Although, I do take Harry Reid and Obama at their word that their ultimate goal is a Single-Payer healthcare system, I don't know whether to believe this system failure is a bug or a feature. I lean towards bug.
I think they really are just this incompetent.
The scary thing is, what would a single-payer system look like if they are this terrible with this system.
In such a system, there would be no other option than real human compassion on the part of the healthcare providers themselves.
You think Anonymous would mess with Obamacare?
Neh....no way :)
John McAfee on Obamacare: ‘This is a hacker’s wet dream’.
http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2013/10/john-mcafee-on-obamacare-this-is.html
Best comment on the facebook site...
'WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE NSA SNOOPING, THESE GUYS CAN'T DO ANYTHING'
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