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Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the health-website-that-isn't-healthy dept.

By now, most Americans have either heard or learned firsthand that the Healthcare.gov website doesn't work right. Slings, arrows, and brickbats are being slung all over Washington, and Congressional representatives are busily thundering imprecations at all and sundry who were involved in putting Healthcare.gov together. If there have been any Congressional hearing focusing on how to fix the problems, though, we have not seen them. You'd think that our representatives would bring in people like today's interviewee, Todd Williams, who has written a book titled Rescue the Problem Project and runs a company that specializes in rescuing failed projects. What's more, Todd is just one of many Americans who have helped rescue projects that have gone awry. Hopefully our government has at least one of them working on Healthcare.gov by now, although we haven't heard that they've selected a strong turnaround manager and set him or her to work on the project -- and you'd think they would have told us if they had.

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  1. Re:Me too! by DaHat · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Republicans defunded part of the project.

    Citation to specific bill which caused this please.

    The Republicans refused to set up state exchanges in their stats, increasing the traffic load on the website.

    If it was a traffic load issue, why does the issue still persist nearly 2 months since launch when the traffic to the site dropped by 88% after the first couple of weeks? http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/visits-to-federal-health-care-web-site-off-88percent/2013/10/15/7a73f45c-35e2-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html

    More so, you realize under Federalism... states do still have some rights... right?

    And most of all, the Republicans DID NOT ALLOW US TO HAVE SINGLE PAYER, which put us in this situation in the first place.

    Remind me... how many Republican's voted for this monstrosity of a law which is forcing people to lose their health insurance plans and pay even more out of pocket for the replacements? Right... ZERO.

    Don't blame the Republicans when the liberals couldn't come up with enough votes to implement single payer.

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    Help Brendan pay off his student loans
  2. Re:Me too! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    California exchange signed up 35,000 people the first month.
    California sent out 5 million cancellations in the same time period.

    150 people lost coverage for everyone added via the exchange. THIS IS SUCCESS for Obamacare supporters!

    Note: In order to participate in the exchange the health insurance companies in California were REQUIRED BY LAW to cancel ALL individual policies. If they refuesed to cancel individual policies they would not be allowed to sell in the exchange there.

    Like I said, this is one of their best examples of sucess. A reasonable person would call it failure, but I guess they are not reasonable.