Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows

davecb writes "The Obamacare sign-up site was a classic example of managers saying 'not invented here' and doing everything wrong, as described in Poul-Henning Kamp's Center Wheel for Success, at ACM Queue." It's not just a knock on the health-care finance site, though: "We are quick to dismiss these types of failures as politicians asking for the wrong systems and incompetent and/or greedy companies being happy to oblige. While that may be part of the explanation, it is hardly sufficient. ... [New technologies] allow us to make much bigger projects, but the actual success/failure rate seems to be pretty much the same."

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Re:Why not call it its actual name?

[haruchai]

Here's what Obama himself said about that - "And once it's working really well, I guarantee you, they'll not call it Obamacare. Here's a prediction for you - a few years from now, when people are using this to get coverage, everybody's feeling pretty good about all the choices & competition that they've got, there are going to be a whole bunch of folks saying "I always thought this provision was excellent, I voted for that thing".
You watch, it will not be called Obamacare," -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aN2iuIhcx0