The Healthcare.gov failure is felonious incompetence

healthcaregovBest I can tell, hardly anyone is saying this so bluntly, so I’m going to say it:

The problems that HealthCare.gov is designed to solve are not particularly difficult. It needs to:

  • Classify people by income and need.
  • Show them plans based on the previous bullet (including connectivity to providers).
  • Enable them to purchase one of said plans.
  • Accept and process data sufficient to complete the transaction (including connectivity to providers).
  • Do all of the above with a modicum of security.

What else? Nothing.

Folks, listen to what I’m about to say. I’m not exaggerating in the least:

I personally know perhaps 50 people who could have easily designed, built, and tested this site all by themselves in six to nine months for $100,000 or less. I know ten times that many who could have gotten through it with only slightly less impressive expenditures of time and money.

Our illustrious federal government, under the wise, kind gaze of Barack Obama, took four times that long and six thousand three hundred forty times that much money to give us a total debacle.

This is not a shucks-darn-it, it didn’t work. This is felonious incompetence. The failure is so severe as to be thoroughly absurd; incapable of being discussed in rational conversation. It is akin to standing someone in the middle of a mall with $100,000 and giving him six months to dress himself in a three-piece suit, and he can’t manage to do it. Yes, it is that ridiculous; the failure exactly that comical.

Do not believe the Obama administration or its sycophantic press corps when it describes this situation as any more complicated than that. This is a straightforward technical problem that was executed with absolutely stunning incompetence.

I’m really looking forward to this same government making medical decisions for your mom, or your son.

Aren’t you?

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17 thoughts on “The Healthcare.gov failure is felonious incompetence”

  1. So apparently the work was done under a no-bid contract to a company with a top executive who just happened to be a classmate of Michelle Obama’s at Princeton. The Chicago-land style of corruption within this administration is appalling.

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  2. Jenny, yup, saw that this morning. Warms your heart, doesn’t it?

    The lies the administration is telling about this colossal failure are some of the most egregious yet, even from a bunch of folks who have not seemed to feel, shall we say, overly burdened with a need for honesty. I wish someone would genuinely take Jay Carney apart on the ridiculous claims of how complex this whole thing is, and gee whiz we’re doing all we can but it’s just so popular, and finally say “you tell your boss to come out here like an adult and own this problem.”

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      • How have we come to this place at which it’s so ridiculous to imagine such? How does such a sustainedly incompetent thug continue to enjoy such deference?

        What country is this?

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        • I don’t know, Bo. I really don’t. But since a majority of the opposition party refuses to summon enough testicular fortitude to either stand up to the thug, OR… the opposition party stops playing to its own selfish interests and starts doing the job it was sent there to do, said thug will continue on the path he has trod thus far.

          I have seen little (Sens. Cruz and Paul the notable exceptions) to make me think other than what I’ve already said.

          And short of a wide-scale revolution of relatively catastrophic proportions (because I may speak lightly about it but let’s face it, any insurrection is going to turn ugly), it’s not going to change anytime soon. I don’t even have any hope for the ’14 elections, because between the corruption already entrenched and the continued dumbing-down of a easily pacified populace, not enough of these bozos look to be going anywhere.

  3. Bo for President!!! This is not a joke! The way government overcomplicates things seems to be universal on all levels!! Bo, even though I have all but given up my right to vote, I would vote for you for President…only please run on an independent ticket!!!

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    • It’s just barely believable to me how poorly it’s gone. I say again: this was not a difficult technical problem to solve.

      One way or another, there will be a delay. I hope it’s as politically damaging to Obama as possible. I’m actually a bit concerned there hasn’t been some significant offense from the Republicans by now. There needs to be a sensible, keep-your-plan-for-’14 bill in Harry Reid’s face, and then Obama’s face.

      And if they can’t support it, they need to explain to the country why it’s acceptable to legally require American citizens to successfully use a website that just barely functions.

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    • Have you seen doyougotinsurance.com? It’s thoroughly appalling, and I’m pretty sure it’s not a parody site. I’m going to see if it survives a day or so before writing about it.

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