BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! As Obungler said at his presser last week, “Insurance is tough!”
Maybe he should have had insurance companies build healthcare.gov. Our banks. All those ATMs seem to work OK. Or Wall Street.
As a formally highly trained, highly paid, and highly motivated IT professional who was a sysprog with Big Blue, I am shocked at the epic fail of healthcare.gov. Did the people who built it know anything about IT projects? And it took them almost four years to fuck up in such a colossal fashion? We built the Hoover Dam in less time (and under budget) than it took these booger eatin’ moh-rons to come up with this fiasco. It took less time than it did to win WWII in Europe. From Pearl Harbor to VE Day took less time than this IT project. Give me six good large systems systems programmers and the hardware I need and within six months I would have the base back end system in place.
I’m a mainframe bigot so I would start with z/900 processors and I would run z/OS (MVS) in a parallel sysplex. Reliability, scalability, and serviceability. I would run DB/2 for the databases and CICS for the transaction processing. This is just the start.
Then before I loaded up the databases or set up the transaction processing, I would stress the systems. You gotta make sure that people, lots of people, can log on. You can write jobs to do that. Naturally, I would be running sumpin’ like Omegamon so I could monitor what’s going on and where the bottlenecks are. Ya gotta know that so you can set up the Workload Management policies. Of course I would be running VTAM with generic resources set up to handle the logons and other network stuff. This would take less than six months to do. Any more than six months means that you have lousy IT architects, lousy systems programmers, and lousy project managers. This stuff ain’t rocket science. Base – six months.
Then, it would be time to populate the databases and set up the transaction stuff. It would also be time to work on the connectivity issues with the insurance companies. This would be the complicated stuff because you would have to determine which insurance companies would be in the exchanges for each state. Of course this would be much easier if the Dimocrats had adopted the Republicans’ proposed policy of allowing insurance companies to sell their products across state lines, but since the Dimocrats didn’t allow any Republican input into this abortion that didn’t happen. You want competition? That would help. I’m gonna be generous and say this would take a year. Since this is a gummint project, things would be changing constantly. So, let’s add another three months. The rest of the base – fifteen months.
The final stage of implementation would be building the website front end, which would be the easiest part of the entire project. One month.
Twenty-two months which leaves a whole bunch of time left for testing, changing, adding more capacity as needed, and tweaking and it would work a whole lot better than what we have now and it would have cost less. A lot less.
Of course, the easiest and most cost effective solution would be to repeal Obummercare and start over. When you add up Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Obummercare, it will pretty much bankrupt us within fifteen years. Remember, there is no Social Security Trust Fund. The politicians in both parties have spent it buying votes. There is no Medicare Trust Fund. The politicians in both parties have spent it buying votes. Bribing us with our own money. In the private sector, these crooks would be in prison. Obummercare will not decrease the deficit as Obumbler and the Dimocrats promised and anyone with half a brain, which leaves out Obeauzeau and the Dimocrats, knew. It will increase it. Drastically!
And what about that Medicaid bribe that many states fell for, and thankfully Georgia didn’t which has the liberals in Georgia crying about. The feds will pay 100% of the expansion for the first two years. Then, they’ll cut their support to 95%. Look for it to continue to drop which will put the states on the hook for more than they can afford. Suckers! Thank you Governor Deal for not falling for that scam!
All this nets out to what?
We’re doomed! Big time!