Obama Calls on Private Sector IT Pros to fix HealthCare.gov
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While the US is just now beginning to recover from a two-week long political standoff over President Obama’s health care reform measures, some people have been filing complaints about the HealthCare.gov website relating to significant technical issues.
Earlier on Monday, President Obama said that the US is tapping IT talent from all over the country to fix the myriad of problems behind the health insurance exchange site.
"The Web site that's supposed to make it easy to apply for and purchase the insurance is not working the way it should for everybody… People have been stuck during the application process.” Obama proclaimed, “We are doing everything we can possibly do to get the Web site working better, faster, sooner… Experts from some of America's top private-sector tech companies, who have seen things like this happen before, are reaching out and offering to send help.”
In the mean-time, President Obama said that potential insurance buyers could sign up for health care by phone or in-person.
"The Web site that's supposed to make it easy to apply for and purchase the insurance is not working the way it should for everybody… People have been stuck during the application process.” Obama proclaimed, “We are doing everything we can possibly do to get the Web site working better, faster, sooner… Experts from some of America's top private-sector tech companies, who have seen things like this happen before, are reaching out and offering to send help.”
In the mean-time, President Obama said that potential insurance buyers could sign up for health care by phone or in-person.
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Or am I getting this all wrong? Its not always easy to decipher things across such a distance, so any explanation would be appreciated =)
The US "private sector" has not dictated anything in the past 50 some years. If you mean the sadly Marxist/national socialist system that has been slowly creeping into the system through the ever so growing government then yes, the ObamaCare would make every living Marxist proud.
In an actual free-market system (without any gov't coercion) the prices of health care would be a lot less (not just the USA); enter the government and you get regulated price-control that only serves the bought and paid for pocket-lining interest groups, hence the higher and higher prices and lower quality service (i.e. Canadian Health Care system, post 1960's).
Obamacare simply drains the system of resources that are already scares. And this is not Democrats vs Republicans; both parties are under the same corrupt special-interest system. Democrats buy their votes one way, while the Republicans do it another, both corrupting the nation through their unethical and immoral practices.
The fact that they have already spent 400 million on that joke of a site, is beyond sad at this point.
Some of the major game players probably could have done the entire thing for 30 million instead of 400 million, and it would probably work just fine(with perhaps the exception of day 1 congestion). As long as its not EA anyway; recent history has taught us they probably couldn't have done it any better, lol.
The fact that they have already spent 400 million on that joke of a site, is beyond sad at this point.
Some of the major game players probably could have done the entire thing for 30 million instead of 400 million, and it would probably work just fine(with perhaps the exception of day 1 congestion). As long as its not EA anyway; recent history has taught us they probably couldn't have done it any better, lol.
I think it fair to say, that this is the largest public-interest web presence that the US has ever undertaken. It is also fair to say that V1 was beta released a tad bit early. It will get better.
I think it fair to say, that this is the largest public-interest web presence that the US has ever undertaken. It is also fair to say that V1 was beta released a tad bit early. It will get better.
While it may or may not get better considering its the most Expensive web site ever assembled you'd think in the time that they've had to construct it it would be stronger and more well made and able to deal with more web traffic.
I can't wait until healthcare workers are eventually made federal employees. Then we get to see the rampant incompetence and waste of a national bureaucracy applied in a new and terrifying way.
Think about it.... This current farce is just the interface. A simple sign-on process. Does anyone in their right mind really think that managing a nation's healthcare system is going to be easier than the sign-up process? What do you think the healthcare is going to be like when they can't even handle a web page?
We deserve this. The Apathy, Laziness, and Greed of the American Voter may finally result in something that gets their attention.... but I doubt it.
Health care coverage is a choice for most people not a right. Government steps in to solve this "issue" by mandating insurance companies to cover any and all regardless of preexisting health issues - because the government knows best - and blames the gimped heartless free-market for being so discriminatory, which the government gimped in the first place, with previous regulations - because the government knows best.
Enter the all wise and knowing "solution" to the heartless freemarket: ObamaCare! The solution of the ruling class for the brain-dead "poor" majority.
Or am I getting this all wrong? Its not always easy to decipher things across such a distance, so any explanation would be appreciated =)
Or am I getting this all wrong? Its not always easy to decipher things across such a distance, so any explanation would be appreciated =)
The US "private sector" has not dictated anything in the past 50 some years. If you mean the sadly Marxist/national socialist system that has been slowly creeping into the system through the ever so growing government then yes, the ObamaCare would make every living Marxist proud.
In an actual free-market system (without any gov't coercion) the prices of health care would be a lot less (not just the USA); enter the government and you get regulated price-control that only serves the bought and paid for pocket-lining interest groups, hence the higher and higher prices and lower quality service (i.e. Canadian Health Care system, post 1960's).
Obamacare simply drains the system of resources that are already scares. And this is not Democrats vs Republicans; both parties are under the same corrupt special-interest system. Democrats buy their votes one way, while the Republicans do it another, both corrupting the nation through their unethical and immoral practices.