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Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video)
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.
You'd think they would have told us before October 1 that there were going to be some problems with healthcare.gov. They were either ignorant, incompetent or in denial.
The legislators don't know enough to ask the right questions nor do they have the training and experience needed to understand large system development.
In Congress its a case of the blind leading the deaf.
Socialism has always resulted in a lower standard of living for the people it's purported to help
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I've a question. I'm Canadian so I don't know. Just curious.
Why can't you just go to a government office and sign up for Obamacare? Or can you? Personally, why people are surprised that a government website can't handle high traffic baffles my mind. What government website ever did? Anyho', really just interested in my first question. One factor I've been aware of is that the plan is administrated through the States, so I'm wondering of states hostile to Obama (Republicans) aren't offering it at their state or municipal offices?
It's a good thing that's not how medicare works already. I always find this argument funny, you hear don't touch medicare! Then when someone argues for medicare for all you get this complete tripe.
You left out Massachusetts, which has also managed to sign up 0 people.
Now you might think "wait, but Massachusetts has Romneycare, of course they had 0 signups, everyone's already signed up." And you'd be wrong. Turns out that a bunch of people who had plans they liked under Romneycare are going to lose them under Obamacare. (Why does that sound familiar?) Which means that they have to reapply to the state exchange.
The state exchange was redone due to Obamacare, and the new version flat-out doesn't work. So a whole bunch of people are going to lose their Romneycare plans thanks to Obamacare.
And I'm sure the new website not working has nothing to do with Massachusetts using the exact same contractors who built Healthcare.gov.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
Dude - we don't use the national exchanges - we use the efficient state exchanges.
I get that you, being a typical Red Stater, support Big Government solutions like your comrades, but we Blue Staters just make things WORK.
I had to explain that to a stupid national reporter in DC who posted a chart showing WA had 6000 signups - yeah, 6000 that used the NATIONAL messed up system.
Now, stop living off the subsidy for your Pay Contractors More solutions.
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