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"BOOM: "Obamacare Shouldn't Have Been Managed Like a Campaign""

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

What amazes me is that, aside from his appointment of Bo as First Dog, Obamacare was the one thing that Obama thought he could point to from his first term as a major achievement.

It was to be his Legacy.

With the website: They had virtually unlimited resources to throw at it, and 3 1/2 years to implement it, and still completely failed.

WTF was Obama doing all that time? (yeah, golfing, fundraising, I know) How was he not all over this?

Everyone on the Right knew Obamacare would be an unmitigated disaster even if the website worked perfectly, but presumably Obama and his flunkies all thought otherwise.

Step 1 to achieving the Legacy had to be getting people to actually, you know, sign up for the crap sandwich. Convincing them wouldn't be hard since the bill was designed to force 130 million or so off their employer plans and another 20 million off their individual market plans, with little choice but to sign up at an Exchange. So, they really didn't need a 'plan' to convince anyone to sign up.

All that had to do was create a functional portal.

Blew a BILLION dollars on it (the number keeps growing as people dig deeper into all the ways they spent on the website, to multiple companies).

Yet, total fail.

Worse, it seems like they had no clue it wouldn't work until after they launched it.

How is that even possible?

I spent a decade as a software designer/producer. Its impossible NOT to know exactly the shape your product is in before it goes out the door. yeah, you expect to find some bugs that your beta-testers miss once a few million people start banging on it, but you don't launch it unless your confident you've got all the major ones found and fixed.

4:19 AM

Blogger Dapandico said...

The participation trophy mentality.

7:45 AM

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