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Lessons From the Healthcare.gov Fiasco
Nerval's Lobster writes "In theory, the federal government's Health Insurance Marketplace was supposed to make things easy for anyone in the market for health insurance. But fourteen days after the Website made its debut, the online initiative—an integral part of the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act—has metastasized into a disaster. Despite costing $400 million (so far) and employing an army of experienced IT contractors (such as Booz Allen Hamilton and CGI Group), the Website is prone to glitches and frequent crashes, frustrating many of those seeking to sign up for a health-insurance policy. Unless you're the head of a major federal agency or a huge company launching an online initiative targeted at millions of users, it's unlikely you'll be the one responsible for a project (and problems) on the scale of the Health Insurance Marketplace. Nonetheless, the debacle offers some handy lessons in project management for Websites and portals of any size: know your IT specifications (federal contractors reportedly didn't receive theirs until a few months ago), choose management capable of recognizing the problems that arise (management of Healthcare.gov was entrusted to the Medicare and Medicaid agency, which didn't have the technical chops), roll out small if possible, and test, test, test. The Health Insurance Marketplace fiasco speaks to an unfortunate truth about Web development: even when an entity (whether public or private, corporation or federal government) has keen minds and millions of dollars at its disposal, forgetting or mishandling the basics of successful Web construction can lead to embarrassing problems."
There's a cream for that.
But we can't tell yet if your insurance will cover it.
"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
Clearly this is all because of {current President} and all the rest of the {President's affiliated party}. If only this were done by {opposing party to that of the President} instead none of this would have happpened!
Considering testing was slated to BEGIN the day before launch, I doubt it.
The contractors were too busy designing all of the "Due to the government shutdown, this website is closed" websites for all of the other government sites, so they didn't have enough time to work on the launch of the new site.
Seeing that the current administration is, by their own admission, the most transparent administration in history, it shouldn't be difficult. Moreover an entire legion of crusading journalists are just waiting for leads to fall into their laps so they can take down high-ranking Democratic government officials for corruption. There are multiple Pulitzer Prizes waiting for those who do these deeds. So, don't worry!
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!