A charitable reading suggests that ObamaCare's net enrollment stands at about negative four million. That's the estimated four million to five and a half million people who had their individual health plans liquidated as ObamaCare-noncompliant—offset by the 364,682 who have signed up for a plan on a state or federal exchange and the 803,077 who have been found eligible to receive Medicaid.
HHS is boasting of enrollment for November that was four times as high as October, yet 62% of the total was in the state exchanges, some of which are marginally less prone to crashing than the federal version. Then again, 41 states posted sign-ups only in the three or four figures, including eight states that run their own exchanges. Oregon managed to scrape up 44 people. Among the 137,204 federal sign-ups, no state is reaching the critical mass necessary for stable insurance prices.
The larger problem is that none of these represent true enrollments. HHS is reporting how many people "selected" a plan on the exchange, not how many people have actually enrolled in a plan with an insurance company by paying the first month's premium, which is how the private insurance industry defines enrollment. HHS has made up its own standard. -- more
1. Washington Examiner is one of the MOST extreme right wing political rags in the country.
Assuming that is even true: Did that change the number of people that signed up? Did that change the amount of money that was spent on the Oregon Obamacare project? It appears the answer to that is "No" and "No." It might make them more interested in doing a key job of the media, which is ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse. If the only media is the sort of tame media that President Obama has had for most of his term, you get what we got.
2. Oregon's web site has not even been online most of the time. It is a total fiasco. Any conclusions on the PPACA based on Oregon are completely ridiculous.
Wait, are you suggesting that there is a story here? That the web site was a disaster? Shouldn't that be in the media? Isn't that a story worth being told, especially when it costs $300,000,000 for a state? That is a lot of money for a relatively small state. That seems to suggest that your objections to this being covered are nonsense.
3. The situation is NOT representative of what is going on in the rest of the country where signups are increasing at a brisk pace after the improvements on Healthcare.gov.
Mod story -1 stupid.
You just seemed to indicate above that it was a story worth telling in its own right, that it was a disaster for the state. Why wouldn't you want that story being told? Oh, see #1. You disagree with the viewpoint, and don't want the story being told. That is why having media outlets with a different viewpoint is important. You wouldn't want to tell the story, they would. Moderate your post -1 !insightful.
As to your rosy picture of signups in the rest of the country:
On Wednesday the Health and Human Services Department continued its Victorian-era strip tease and allowed a glimpse into the Affordable Care Act's "enrollment" for November. Out of respect for a free press, reporters ought to boycott these releases because they're so selective that they reveal little about real enrollment. But we'll try to parse the data as best we can without the White House high gloss.
A charitable reading suggests that ObamaCare's net enrollment stands at about negative four million. That's the estimated four million to five and a half million people who had their individual health plans liquidated as ObamaCare-noncompliant—offset by the 364,682 who have signed up for a plan on a state or federal exchange and the 803,077 who have been found eligible to receive Medicaid.
HHS is boasting of enrollment for November that was four times as high as October, yet 62% of the total was in the state exchanges, some of which are marginally less prone to crashing than the federal version. Then again, 41 states posted sign-ups only in the three or four figures, including eight states that run their own exchanges. Oregon managed to scrape up 44 people. Among the 137,204 federal sign-ups, no state is reaching the critical mass necessary for stable insurance prices. -- more
What is it? Still not sure about where I stand on the whole thing, but isn't this meant to be an opinionated reference; possibly an aspersion?
Affordable Care Act
Editors: Saying Obamacare sounds similar to calling, at every chance, Social Security as Rooseveltaid or the conflicts in the Middle East as Bushwar.
You better tell the White House then, since the White House website (President Obama's own) refers to it as "Obamacare" in places. Will you shame President Obama for that?
Obamacare means that health insurance companies have to be accountable to you. If they spend too much money on overhead and not enough on medical care, you get a rebate -- just like 8.5 million Americans this summer. Here's a graphic that breaks things down. Will you share it to help answer questions in your community?
You know, if I didn't know better this might seem like people trying to distance themselves from Obamacare now that it is turning into a train wreck whereas they were quite happy with the association when it was all sunshine and glorious (empty) promises.
It becomes a purple pill and your acid reflux gets better. (Which, coincidentally, is what would happen if the red/blue states and red/blue Representatives actually started working together - you know, for the good of the *whole* country.)
That makes for a great slogan, and for a range of things it might even work. The problem comes in that the US population tends to be more or less evenly divided as to what constitutes what is best for the good of the whole country, and those visions of what is best are very far apart in some cases. It is like one of the explanations of the difference between the US and Europe. Both value freedom and equality, but Europe has traditionally valued equality more, and the US has valued freedom more. The results lead to different places.
An almost unfathomable gap divides public attitudes on basic issues involving gender, race, religion and politics in America, fueled by dramatic ideological and partisan divisions that offer the prospect of more of the bitter political battles that played out in Washington this month.
A new ABC News/Fusion poll, marking the launch of the Fusion television network, finds vast differences among groups in trust in government, immigration policy and beyond, including basic views on issues such as the role of religion and the value of diversity in politics, treatment of women in the workplace and the opportunities afforded to minorities in society more broadly.
It might be best if more decisions were pushed down to the state level and let the states go their separate ways on various policies. Then people can vote with their feet. That will likely result in bluer "blue states," and redder "red states." That may be playing out now between California and Texas.
It is just flamebait. They know that these kinds of articles just end up being a blue vs red slugfest.
So you don't think spending $300,000,000 on a significant IT project to get a website used by 44 people matters.... even as an example of massive waste, fraud, or abuse? Wow.
What a pathetic day, when political trolling, with not even a hit of actual technical content, is published as as story on Slashdot. Isn't someone paid to moderate this stuff for substance and relevance?
So in other words, you support Obamacare. Fair enough.
But aren't you outraged at this massive, expensive, IT failure?
Unfortunately the way that would work out in practice with the current government would be: If you like your Estonian doctor, you can keep your Estonian doctor. That's great if you're in Estonia, but that would make visits from the US to doctor's offices a pain.
I am ever thankful that when the new magic of the world of men, the LHC, was set loose, that the world did not fall into shadow, for there are deeper and darker pits than even those found in Moria.
So you think that either the Swiss or the Dwarfs are all Jewish?
Piece of advice: you probably shouldn't post while you're either that drunk or stupid. I'm going to guess that means you probably shouldn't post at all.
There seem to be a lot of them in the news lately. Some, like this, are created by disruptive technologies like the internet. Others by bad government planning. (See: ACA) Others by the economy has businesses. This will only force more change in the future, which will likewise create more opportunities, and more death spirals. Will we end up in Utopia, dystopia, or something in between? Whatever it is, it will be different.
It's probably just writer's block. Intelligence agency interest in on-line games was in the news back around 2006-2008, just like the warrantless wiretapping controversy. If he was going to abandon it for the stated reason I would expect he would have done it then. Besides, this sort of thing hasn't really stopped other writers from creating interesting stories.
There was less personal privacy in pretty much all spheres of life under communist rule, before you even begin considering personal liberty, and the economic system was a failure to boot.
Factory managers in Russia are examined once a year on political theory. To hold his job, a manager must qualify anew every year in "Dialectical and Historical Materialism," and in "The History of the Communist Party." His compulsory reading list includes 64 official textbooks, plus 93 selections from Lenin, 11 from Engles, 24 from Marx, 13 from Stalin, 14 from Khrushchev, and one from Mao Tse-tung. It is easy to imagine what happens to Russian production when every factory manager is occupied with these predetermined studies as the prime vehicle of his bureaucratic advancement.
Every factory manager has but one aim in life—to make this month’s production quota. His entire career, and all his incentive bonuses, are based on annual quota accomplishment. On this score, another reputable American economist reported: "The incentive system also encourages falsification of records, the hoarding of labor and supplies, and numerous unusual activities such as working employees on a Sunday and giving them a day off in the following month"
This general pattern of phony quota-making has resulted in a broad panorama of totally unreliable production statistics from every sector of the Bolshevik economy.
Russian labor is regimented in a measure which kills all striving for excellence. Trained workers are in short supply in every line of production, and in-plant incentives often are discouraged by meticulously designed production norms delivered by Gosplan, Moscow, for every factory operation.
Communist China is still in business, so to speak, despite the pervasive surveillance of its police state. Why?
The seeds of China's rapid economic growth since the 1990s were first planted back in 1978 when the Communist Party started to introduce capitalist market principles, initially in the agricultural sector.
There is an open question about how long Europe will be able to continue under its current arrangements. They are facing long term problems with their economies, social policy, and demographics. European governments have been shown to engage in spying as well.
The US government substantially worsened the housing bubble by one set of actions, and slowed the recovery by others. Politics prevented reforms that could have stopped the government intervention leading to the first problem, and is directly resulting in the second.
Gravitational lensing, as a phenomenon, has been shown (proven?) to exist. There is more than one theory that explains it. Both General Relativity and the TeVeS flavor of MOND gravity can explain it IIRC.
When I've had to support an OS or application I've generally found it helpful for the release notes for an update to contain at least a summary of bug fixes since the last release as a minimum. That is assuming that the comments are detailed enough to be helpful. I don't necessarily need to see them all, but at least the major issues. That can help you decide if you need it to fix issues you are seeing, or if it could effect you. If your software has different collections of bundles of patches, such as a large standard bundle and various individual patches, you can see if you need to go outside of the standard bundle.
One example - A number of years ago there was a Solaris patch that wasn't part of the standard bundle, IIRC, that was needed to fix a problem that occurred only in certain advanced math functions on Ultrasparc III processors. If you were only doing generic database or web work you would be very unlikely to need it. But the applications we ran were very likely to be affected. So, seeing that, I grabbed and applied the patch where it was needed at my first opportunity. Not having a fix list would have prevented me from being able to make that choice and we would have taken a performance hit.
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately I think most of us are bastards to him.
The treachery of Julian Assange
Wikileaks Fails “Due Diligence” Review
What Does Julian Assange Want?
Exclusive: Former WikiLeaks Employee James Ball Describes Working With Julian Assange
Wikileaks are for-hire mercenaries - Cryptome
...are you actually trying to use one state-run exchange's technical failure to undermine the other states whose exchanges are working just fine?
That might be over generous.
Juking the ObamaCare Stats - HHS won't disclose the enrollment data that really matter.
A charitable reading suggests that ObamaCare's net enrollment stands at about negative four million. That's the estimated four million to five and a half million people who had their individual health plans liquidated as ObamaCare-noncompliant—offset by the 364,682 who have signed up for a plan on a state or federal exchange and the 803,077 who have been found eligible to receive Medicaid.
HHS is boasting of enrollment for November that was four times as high as October, yet 62% of the total was in the state exchanges, some of which are marginally less prone to crashing than the federal version. Then again, 41 states posted sign-ups only in the three or four figures, including eight states that run their own exchanges. Oregon managed to scrape up 44 people. Among the 137,204 federal sign-ups, no state is reaching the critical mass necessary for stable insurance prices.
The larger problem is that none of these represent true enrollments. HHS is reporting how many people "selected" a plan on the exchange, not how many people have actually enrolled in a plan with an insurance company by paying the first month's premium, which is how the private insurance industry defines enrollment. HHS has made up its own standard. -- more
1. Washington Examiner is one of the MOST extreme right wing political rags in the country.
Assuming that is even true: Did that change the number of people that signed up? Did that change the amount of money that was spent on the Oregon Obamacare project? It appears the answer to that is "No" and "No." It might make them more interested in doing a key job of the media, which is ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse. If the only media is the sort of tame media that President Obama has had for most of his term, you get what we got.
2. Oregon's web site has not even been online most of the time. It is a total fiasco. Any conclusions on the PPACA based on Oregon are completely ridiculous.
http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-healthcare-exchange-website-never-worked-no-subscribers-130601969--sector.html
Wait, are you suggesting that there is a story here? That the web site was a disaster? Shouldn't that be in the media? Isn't that a story worth being told, especially when it costs $300,000,000 for a state? That is a lot of money for a relatively small state. That seems to suggest that your objections to this being covered are nonsense.
3. The situation is NOT representative of what is going on in the rest of the country where signups are increasing at a brisk pace after the improvements on Healthcare.gov.
Mod story -1 stupid.
You just seemed to indicate above that it was a story worth telling in its own right, that it was a disaster for the state. Why wouldn't you want that story being told? Oh, see #1. You disagree with the viewpoint, and don't want the story being told. That is why having media outlets with a different viewpoint is important. You wouldn't want to tell the story, they would. Moderate your post -1 !insightful.
As to your rosy picture of signups in the rest of the country:
Juking the ObamaCare Stats - HHS won't disclose the enrollment data that really matter.
On Wednesday the Health and Human Services Department continued its Victorian-era strip tease and allowed a glimpse into the Affordable Care Act's "enrollment" for November. Out of respect for a free press, reporters ought to boycott these releases because they're so selective that they reveal little about real enrollment. But we'll try to parse the data as best we can without the White House high gloss.
A charitable reading suggests that ObamaCare's net enrollment stands at about negative four million. That's the estimated four million to five and a half million people who had their individual health plans liquidated as ObamaCare-noncompliant—offset by the 364,682 who have signed up for a plan on a state or federal exchange and the 803,077 who have been found eligible to receive Medicaid.
HHS is boasting of enrollment for November that was four times as high as October, yet 62% of the total was in the state exchanges, some of which are marginally less prone to crashing than the federal version. Then again, 41 states posted sign-ups only in the three or four figures, including eight states that run their own exchanges. Oregon managed to scrape up 44 people. Among the 137,204 federal sign-ups, no state is reaching the critical mass necessary for stable insurance prices. -- more
Not quite so rosy.
Just offer him the job as the US Drug Czar.
What is it? Still not sure about where I stand on the whole thing, but isn't this meant to be an opinionated reference; possibly an aspersion?
Affordable Care Act
Editors: Saying Obamacare sounds similar to calling, at every chance, Social Security as Rooseveltaid or the conflicts in the Middle East as Bushwar.
You better tell the White House then, since the White House website (President Obama's own) refers to it as "Obamacare" in places. Will you shame President Obama for that?
Obamacare in Three Words: Saving People Money
Obamacare means that health insurance companies have to be accountable to you. If they spend too much money on overhead and not enough on medical care, you get a rebate -- just like 8.5 million Americans this summer. Here's a graphic that breaks things down. Will you share it to help answer questions in your community?
You know, if I didn't know better this might seem like people trying to distance themselves from Obamacare now that it is turning into a train wreck whereas they were quite happy with the association when it was all sunshine and glorious (empty) promises.
You missed me? I didn't mean to cause a moral panic by my absence. ;)
It becomes a purple pill and your acid reflux gets better. (Which, coincidentally, is what would happen if the red/blue states and red/blue Representatives actually started working together - you know, for the good of the *whole* country.)
That makes for a great slogan, and for a range of things it might even work. The problem comes in that the US population tends to be more or less evenly divided as to what constitutes what is best for the good of the whole country, and those visions of what is best are very far apart in some cases. It is like one of the explanations of the difference between the US and Europe. Both value freedom and equality, but Europe has traditionally valued equality more, and the US has valued freedom more. The results lead to different places.
Poll Finds Vast Gaps in Basic Views on Gender, Race, Religion and Politics
An almost unfathomable gap divides public attitudes on basic issues involving gender, race, religion and politics in America, fueled by dramatic ideological and partisan divisions that offer the prospect of more of the bitter political battles that played out in Washington this month.
A new ABC News/Fusion poll, marking the launch of the Fusion television network, finds vast differences among groups in trust in government, immigration policy and beyond, including basic views on issues such as the role of religion and the value of diversity in politics, treatment of women in the workplace and the opportunities afforded to minorities in society more broadly.
It might be best if more decisions were pushed down to the state level and let the states go their separate ways on various policies. Then people can vote with their feet. That will likely result in bluer "blue states," and redder "red states." That may be playing out now between California and Texas.
It is just flamebait. They know that these kinds of articles just end up being a blue vs red slugfest.
So you don't think spending $300,000,000 on a significant IT project to get a website used by 44 people matters.... even as an example of massive waste, fraud, or abuse? Wow.
You're not a taxpayer I take it?
You don't think spending $300,000,000 for 44 people to use a web site matters? Wow.
What a pathetic day, when political trolling, with not even a hit of actual technical content, is published as as story on Slashdot. Isn't someone paid to moderate this stuff for substance and relevance?
So in other words, you support Obamacare. Fair enough.
But aren't you outraged at this massive, expensive, IT failure?
Unfortunately the way that would work out in practice with the current government would be: If you like your Estonian doctor, you can keep your Estonian doctor. That's great if you're in Estonia, but that would make visits from the US to doctor's offices a pain.
Burma shave?
(Man, I don't remember that one.)
The Finns have their own intelligence service that wants to expand. They want to model their powers after what the Swedes have done.
I am ever thankful that when the new magic of the world of men, the LHC, was set loose, that the world did not fall into shadow, for there are deeper and darker pits than even those found in Moria.
So you think that either the Swiss or the Dwarfs are all Jewish?
Piece of advice: you probably shouldn't post while you're either that drunk or stupid. I'm going to guess that means you probably shouldn't post at all.
IMHO, I don't care if they store data in the vaults of Mordor...
I'm thinking that the Swiss are more of the Dwarf miner flavor, don't you think? Tunnels, tunnels everywhere, filled with gold.
There seem to be a lot of them in the news lately. Some, like this, are created by disruptive technologies like the internet. Others by bad government planning. (See: ACA) Others by the economy has businesses. This will only force more change in the future, which will likewise create more opportunities, and more death spirals. Will we end up in Utopia, dystopia, or something in between? Whatever it is, it will be different.
It's probably just writer's block. Intelligence agency interest in on-line games was in the news back around 2006-2008, just like the warrantless wiretapping controversy. If he was going to abandon it for the stated reason I would expect he would have done it then. Besides, this sort of thing hasn't really stopped other writers from creating interesting stories.
There were some fragging good times playing that with friends.
There was less personal privacy in pretty much all spheres of life under communist rule, before you even begin considering personal liberty, and the economic system was a failure to boot.
The Collapse of Communist Economic Theory - APRIL 01, 1961
Factory managers in Russia are examined once a year on political theory. To hold his job, a manager must qualify anew every year in "Dialectical and Historical Materialism," and in "The History of the Communist Party." His compulsory reading list includes 64 official textbooks, plus 93 selections from Lenin, 11 from Engles, 24 from Marx, 13 from Stalin, 14 from Khrushchev, and one from Mao Tse-tung. It is easy to imagine what happens to Russian production when every factory manager is occupied with these predetermined studies as the prime vehicle of his bureaucratic advancement.
Every factory manager has but one aim in life—to make this month’s production quota. His entire career, and all his incentive bonuses, are based on annual quota accomplishment. On this score, another reputable American economist reported: "The incentive system also encourages falsification of records, the hoarding of labor and supplies, and numerous unusual activities such as working employees on a Sunday and giving them a day off in the following month"
This general pattern of phony quota-making has resulted in a broad panorama of totally unreliable production statistics from every sector of the Bolshevik economy.
Russian labor is regimented in a measure which kills all striving for excellence. Trained workers are in short supply in every line of production, and in-plant incentives often are discouraged by meticulously designed production norms delivered by Gosplan, Moscow, for every factory operation.
Communist China is still in business, so to speak, despite the pervasive surveillance of its police state. Why?
China's rising GDP and economic miracle (Follow link to see graph)
The seeds of China's rapid economic growth since the 1990s were first planted back in 1978 when the Communist Party started to introduce capitalist market principles, initially in the agricultural sector.
There is an open question about how long Europe will be able to continue under its current arrangements. They are facing long term problems with their economies, social policy, and demographics. European governments have been shown to engage in spying as well.
The US government substantially worsened the housing bubble by one set of actions, and slowed the recovery by others. Politics prevented reforms that could have stopped the government intervention leading to the first problem, and is directly resulting in the second.
The risk or breakage is why a non-production testing environment is our friend. Kind of hard to do with a single piece of equipment though.
Gravitational lensing, as a phenomenon, has been shown (proven?) to exist. There is more than one theory that explains it. Both General Relativity and the TeVeS flavor of MOND gravity can explain it IIRC.
When I've had to support an OS or application I've generally found it helpful for the release notes for an update to contain at least a summary of bug fixes since the last release as a minimum. That is assuming that the comments are detailed enough to be helpful. I don't necessarily need to see them all, but at least the major issues. That can help you decide if you need it to fix issues you are seeing, or if it could effect you. If your software has different collections of bundles of patches, such as a large standard bundle and various individual patches, you can see if you need to go outside of the standard bundle.
One example - A number of years ago there was a Solaris patch that wasn't part of the standard bundle, IIRC, that was needed to fix a problem that occurred only in certain advanced math functions on Ultrasparc III processors. If you were only doing generic database or web work you would be very unlikely to need it. But the applications we ran were very likely to be affected. So, seeing that, I grabbed and applied the patch where it was needed at my first opportunity. Not having a fix list would have prevented me from being able to make that choice and we would have taken a performance hit.
Isn't the only thing you actually can do in science? Disprove or fail to disprove, but there is no prove.
Is that really true? What about using a theory to make a prediction, and then proving or disproving the existence of the predicted phenomenon?
One example: General relativity predicted gravitational lensing, which was found to exist as the theory predicted.
If so, you clearly don't get to read some of the gems that I do. But I am in no way surprised by your comment given the baggage you drag around.