[Novalug] health care website hearing

Derek LaHousse dlahouss@mtu.edu
Fri Oct 25 09:59:01 EDT 2013


Could set it up in two or three weeks, given an accurate document of
all those APIs, a decent overview of how various components would work
together, and a quality test plan.

Nah, all that sounds too hard.  Let's throw money at the problem.

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@panix.com> wrote:
> You forgot the lawsuits about the legality of the entire law.  Having to connect to at least 34(?) databases (1 for each state drivers license databases, each database has different API's), etc. etc.  Yeah I'm sure this is a simple application - I'm sure any new dBase or MS Access programmer could set it up in two or three weeks.
>
> This clown speaks for himself
>
>> On Oct 24, 2013, at 12:49 PM, greg pryzby <greg@pryzby.org> wrote:
>>
>> There was an interesting piece on NPR where they were interviewing
>> someone involved (forget who). He talked about when the challenge came
>> up, they stopped working on it. Then the election kept them from
>> working on it since it was clear who would win and Romney said he
>> would kill it
>>
>> So, they didn't work on the project for a long time. And then tried to
>> get something out the door at the end.
>>
>> And they decided to hire 4 (?) companies to work on it and there was
>> nobody 'in charge' or responsible for the entire thing (making sure
>> there was communication) because "that would give 1 company" and
>> unfair advantage.
>>
>> The wisdom is if it was possible to shop for costs (no validation of
>> personal info-- a quote like for a mortgage) that would have made a
>> huge difference and some of the problems they see wouldn't have
>> happened. Many were shopping for a price/cost and because you needed
>> to enter pages of info, including SSN that connected to IRS to verify
>> data, problems were seen on day one were exacerbated.
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Walt Smith <waltechmail@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Thats funny !!!!
>>>
>>> my Q is: are they hiring ???
>>>
>>> oooooppppsss... me bad.... they already have all the
>>> employees from all the previous websites that already cost a
>>> $billion and flailed...errr.. failed... and whose said employees
>>> have enough to retire on many times over...  they just need
>>> the 2nd inground swimming pool and Bent-ly..
>>>
>>> W......
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [Novalug] health care website hearing
>>> Thursday, October 24, 2013 11:35 AM
>>>
>>> From:
>>>    "Howard" <how0909@freeshell.org>
>>> To:
>>>    novalug@calypso.tux.org
>>>
>>> cspan is running this mornings hearing 90.1 FM
>>>
>>> and furthermore....
>>> what a bunch of marroons...
>>>
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>>> The government is lawless, not the people.
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