Nice point.

it further supports my belief that the government should never privatize anything!!!

I wondered, if true, why that isn't pointed out.

Not 100%, but I believe this is the info I heard a couple days ago.

(Edit to correct: I had listed AGI, a different software company saying they specialize in "space, defense and intelligence" software.)

WTF do Canadians know about setting up a cobbled-together patchwork assemblage of health insurance plans devised largely to satisfy the needs of parasitic insurance companies?

I swear I heard them talking about it on Morning Joke, but the article about CGI doesn't say anything about them being Canadian.

I never thought of it like that. They were probably rolling and laughing at the shitpile system as they slopped the code together

didn't sabotage the system on some level!

The contract to build Healthcare.gov, issued to the CGI Federal unit of Montreal-based CGI Group, has come under scrutiny after the site

Canada...

Here we go!

Now, yes, they haven't been trendsetting enough to engineer the Baconburger

needs to monitor and test performance. That did not happen here. Fortunately, government stays on the private insurers who handle Medicare.

wouldn't give the funding for it.

people.

Error message - Due to Republicans, This Will Take Awhile.

and a jury voted to hide it because.....

When Democrats start hiding "inconvenient truths" from each other for political reasons, we're in some really deep shit.

I agree with your sentiment.

If you can't admit what's wrong, how will it ever be fixed? And this MUST be fixed.

now would we?

Or am I being entirely unfair?

of course you are going to have this particular reaction. Even emotionally! The first thing you learn in IT is that the defensive crouch is the road to failure, and if you don't learn that, you can be brilliant but a consistent failure in practice.

Haven't we all worked on projects with great commitment? And the measure of our commitment was our willingness to identify problems and resolve them to make them work. So naturally, we extend from that to ACA must work, therefore find and fix problems ASAP, which requires rigorous honesty about the problems. If you didn't want a project to fly, you wouldn't do that.

But to people who don't have that background, perhaps pointing out that these are not "glitches" and "bugs" but a very serious problem looks like criticism designed to destroy.

I'm not completely sure, because I have done this work since my late teens, so the IT mindset is pretty deeply embedded. But I suspect that is the reason for the differing reactions.

Also, in fairness to the non-IT crowd, you have non-IT people from the government talking about the situation telling them that these are "glitches" that will soon be fixed, so what are they to think?

From the article:

I guess it's rude and insensitive to point out the truth of the matter if it might be embarrassing to someone.

...we're so fucked.

Northrop had contracts in Iraq if I recall correctly. The old crony system is still alive and well.

So they were responsible for "building it". CMS is part of the government. The specifications came from multiple sources, all government.

CMS contracted out pieces of the job to various private organizations who do this type of stuff. That's pretty normal for government operations. Because CMS was the contractor, CMS was responsible for choosing most of the right stuff, providing information on what had to be done, and making sure that all the pieces fit together at the end. In larger jobs like this, often the government hires a company to be the contractor, but in this case that didn't happen.

I know by now many of us are wishing they had just called Amazon, but hey.