Little-Acorn
11-14-2013, 11:14 AM
The Federal Obamacare website opened nearly seven weeks ago, and promptly flopped on its face. It's not even news any more that very few people have been able to get it to work. And that's completely aside from the disaster that is Obamacare itself - "insurance" policies that offer less than what many people had before, costs more, requires far higher payments before it kicks in - and penalizes those who don't use it anyway.
But when the website rollout bombed, one would assume that the White House programmers would quickly examine the various problems, decide what solutions had to be implemented, start rewriting things, start testing and adjusting, etc. - the normal correction cycle needed for buggy software.
The President promised recently that it would be up and running correctly by the end of November. Now nearly seven weeks have gone by since the abortive opening, with barely two weeks left before the promised it's-all-fixed date.
But in a news conference yesterday, the following announcement was made:
White House press secretary Jay Carney said the president is trying to reassure congressional Democrats that he will decide on a solution “sooner rather than later.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/13/healthcaregov-unlikely-be-running-end-month-deadli/
Huh? "Deciding on a solution" is supposed to happen early in the correction cycle, shortly after it's determined exactly what the problems are. Then the rest of the time is normally spent writing and rewriting code to put the solution in place, testing what you wrote, fixing a few more things, doing overall tests with large numbers of users, adjusting and finalizing, etc., before declaring the system ready for prime time.
Now we find that they haven't even decided what solution to begin implementing yet?
Is this White House trying to invent new kinds of incompetence that no one has ever seen before?
But when the website rollout bombed, one would assume that the White House programmers would quickly examine the various problems, decide what solutions had to be implemented, start rewriting things, start testing and adjusting, etc. - the normal correction cycle needed for buggy software.
The President promised recently that it would be up and running correctly by the end of November. Now nearly seven weeks have gone by since the abortive opening, with barely two weeks left before the promised it's-all-fixed date.
But in a news conference yesterday, the following announcement was made:
White House press secretary Jay Carney said the president is trying to reassure congressional Democrats that he will decide on a solution “sooner rather than later.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/13/healthcaregov-unlikely-be-running-end-month-deadli/
Huh? "Deciding on a solution" is supposed to happen early in the correction cycle, shortly after it's determined exactly what the problems are. Then the rest of the time is normally spent writing and rewriting code to put the solution in place, testing what you wrote, fixing a few more things, doing overall tests with large numbers of users, adjusting and finalizing, etc., before declaring the system ready for prime time.
Now we find that they haven't even decided what solution to begin implementing yet?
Is this White House trying to invent new kinds of incompetence that no one has ever seen before?