[LINK] IT fail - US style

[Jan Whitaker]

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
jwhit at janwhitaker.com

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