Healthcare.gov

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

So, if pride goes before a fall, what goes before a CRASH?

Well, in terms of the pathetic Obamacare web site, the usual form of words from the Obama Administration is

“…the site was fully-functioning for a “vast majority” of users.”

CRASH!

It happened again last week, early Friday afternoon in fact, as millions of Americans tried to get insurance coverage before the deadline.

I don’t know where they got the information that the site was functioning for the “vast majority of users”.

Well, I do actually. It was a lie. Another one.

In fact the healthcare.gov is not fully-functioning for anyone. On the positive side I suppose you could say that everyone has an equal chance of not being able to use the web site, but that is small comfort to those trying to do so.

And this is just the latest CRASH of many. Last November there was another major one. They “fixed” it, except of course they didn’t, they just got it working for a while, until it toppled over again.

Left in the hands of idiot bureaucrats who clearly have no idea what they are doing, no system can work efficiently. They choose bad designers, who use bad code, produce a bad product, and then are amazed and surprised when it doesn’t work.

There are tens of thousands of commercial web sites, like Google, Amazon, Ebay, Microsoft, even Wikipedia, that take much higher traffic every day without crashing – and they’ve been doing it for years.

Yet the bureaucratic bunglers can’t get their web site working for more than a few weeks at a time.

About all they got right was the timing of the CRASH.

No, wait, they even got that wrong, because the whole debacle happened less than two hours before President Obama had a scheduled press conference, helping to push his approval rating more and more in the negative direction.

But fear not, as millions of his citizens now find themselves stressed and worrying because they have no insurance – due to no fault of their own – their leader will have a solution.

I don’t know what it is, but the odds are in favor of another vacation, possibly in Hawaii – but definitely fully insured!

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

When I was a kid there used to be a game we played called “What Am I?” where someone would describe a thing or a job or a place and the rest would try to guess what it was from the description.

How about we play that game today?

What Am I?

I was born out of an idea from a politician wanting to make a name for himself.

I was then handed to an incompetent government.

I was built by an incompetent company,

That was chosen through an equally incompetent bidding process.

I have cost more than half a billion dollars of your money – so far.

Even the Government Accountability Office estimates I will cost about $2 billion to build-out and operate in 2014.

I am a computer program.

I am full of bad code like you would not believe.

I did not work right when they first launched me.

I have been subjected to major code renovations, overhauled, prodded, poked and fiddled with and even hit with a hammer and I still don’t work right.

Try to login to me and I will reject you.

If by a miracle you manage to access me I will fail to load drop-down menus and other crucial components that you need to successfully access my information.

In fact I will do my utmost to prevent uninsured Americans in the 36 states I serve from purchasing healthcare at competitive rates which is supposed to be my primary purpose.

If eventually I do get going my bureaucratic and administrative costs are going to will spiral out of control.

And I expect I will break down frequently and require much attention and money spent to keep me right.

I will continue to provide a low quality of service at an unbelievably high cost.

So what am I?

Well, if you haven’t guessed already I am “Healthcare.gov” aka the web site for Obamacare!

And the question that all Americans should be asking is, “If the masterminds behind Obamacare can’t even get a simple website up and running, what kind of a mess are they going to make implementing the rest of this act?”

Affordable healthcare is a laudable goal, but this disastrous piece of ill thought out legislation is not the way to achieve it.

Yes we can? No I’m afraid we can’t!