Anyone following the implementation of the US "Obamacare" scheme? Queensland could use it as a comparison project bigger than their own health payroll system that is apparently on its knees. I haven't read any articles yet saying who developed it. Anyone on here know?
From Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/obamacare-aca-website-broken-98412_Page2.html Even some liberal commentators and White House allies who seemed willing to give the administration a long leash have been dismayed by reports of poorly written code, malfunctioning hardware and downright mismanagement. It's really a complex site, as you would expect. Here's the sitemap: https://www.healthcare.gov/sitemap/ BTW, I was able to load the main site and other pages just fine. https://www.healthcare.gov/ Here's an interesting explanation: too many interconnected systems - can we say multiple points of failure? http://www.psmag.com/health/heres-healthcare-gov-broke-68443/ That's just what happened: On Oct. 2, officials identified a bottleneck where those systems intersect at a software component sold by Oracle Corp. that still hasn't been cleared. ... Deadline after deadline was missed. The biggest contractor, CGI Federal, was awarded its $94 million contract in December 2011. But the government was so slow in issuing specifications that the firm did not start writing software code until this spring, ... At the heart of the federal IT crisis is a complex system of regulations that rewards contractors that are better at bidding on giant federal contracts than at building software. For anyone with a GoogleDrive account: Here are all the contractors working on Obamacare and all the money they spent on lobbying and campaigns. http://t.co/qGvaJlvFtM Jan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
