wearing egg on their face when it become clear that the ACA is successful in March, actually before

I don't like the Health Insurance Corporation Written Healthcare Act (my own label), but it is a start to single payer.
If the Republicans are all riled by this act, it must be that good. We have to support it, and our President.
Give them time to work it out.

Come December this needs to work, or we will get whooped in November.

If it's running smoothly in only two weeks, they look great. If it's running by the end of November, but with only a few small bumps, they still look pretty good because they landed close to the target and the thing is mostly working. If they're smart, they expect to have it running smoothly before the promised deadline.

already claiming that Dems are in disarray and jumping ship. Which is the total opposite of whats going on with the Dems as well as the public. Corporate media again covers for the GOPers and the 1-2%ers and eff the American public regarding facts.

This is partially true …

But that’s the nature of Democrats/liberals … we must assert our "independentness".

I was thinking the other day that Democrats/liberals remind me of a lot of basketball and football teams, I have played on (and coached), over the years … particularly, those teams that had some real talent; but seemed to lose more than we won. We would enter the game with a game plan that has us up (in basketball) or moving the ball effectively (in football), … that usually about 4 or 5 possessions, or 2 or 3 series; but at most, until there is a turn-over or two, or being forced to punt a time or two. At that time, individual players started going for their own numbers … passing up that extra pass inside for the outside jumper (in basketball) or throwing the Go or Post Route, rather than checking down to the Wheel or Drag.

Sometimes it worked; but more often, it didn’t … but that was far less important than the recognizing the fact that the reason we were up (or moving the ball) was because of that extra pass inside or check-down.

In this case, Democrats as of late have been winning (and moving the ball) with a game plan (solidarity that forces the modern gop into more extreme actions/rhetoric) that the modern gop can’t stop (IMHO, because their strategy is flawed and because Democrats/liberals are on the side of right); but now individual Democrats are “going for their own numbers.”

As a coach, I had to figure out whether the players were free lancing because wanted to get their numbers or whether they were losing faith in the game plan. In the former case, I sat them down; in the latter, I coached them, i.e., encouraged them to run the play, as designed … pointing out the missed block/pick.

Unfortunately, without earmarks, congressional leadership and the executive can do neither.

Somebody should telegram this news to the idiots in Congress.

right??

If the government (at any level), or an individual for that matter, enters a contract, and the other party fails to meet their obligations, would they not be entitled to reparations for the shortcomings of the other party?

They would have to document and quantify the loss.

There should be a bid doc, with change orders. I have been through a few large (by local gov standards) government procurements.

When we put out bids, the contract is very specific, and has penalties associated with not meeting the requirements in the docs.
We (the gov side) too have responsibilities within the contract. Our last Project Manager was awesome at keeping the contractors feet to the fire.

They had to put up bonds. If they failed to meet a timeline, we deducted from the bonds. Guess what they didn't miss their deadlines.

This was for a 3.5 million dollar contract. Small compared to even a state bid, but the bid doc was over 1000 pages long.

Unless this was a no bid contract, which are wrong to begin with I think, they should be able to settle this with the docs.

Geez, most people still remember how to use telephones, we don't HAVE TO sign up online. Last I heard 1-800-318-2596 was working just fine. Oh, but that wouldn't be as big of a story would it?

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the call..

It all still depends on the website getting fixed

They'll take it, often on paper (pdf), but then they have to enter in the info on the same website that you and I use, and they have been having the same sort of problems that everyone else has had. Now some ARE getting through. But a lot more need to be processed in the system.

So those apps too are really in limbo until the website becomes more functional.

There isn't another system that these people have to use to bypass the website.

some other manufactured crisis will drown out the news...

The M$M has pounced full-force on the healthcare.gov technical issues, reporting non-stop on them. Saying how they are a "big win" for the GOP and other such bullshit. Even Jon Stewart's segment about the issue the other night practically could have been a Fox News piece.

All this after utter silence on voting glitches during the last several elections.

trying valiantly to rehabilitate the brand after the GOP made total asses of themselves.

It now becomes a line in the sand. I'm not sure a "surge" will do much good because it takes time to get new people up to speed. Indeed, the training takes away from the short term efforts to fix the problem. That is not to say that new project management shouldn't be brought in because that is one aspect where a new team that actually applies sound project management practices would do immediate good. Another area where a "surge" could be helpful is in the database design area where problems could be identified using diagnostic tools to pinpoint congestion that causes poor response times. But for the most part just adding bodies, no matter their expertise, will not do that much short term good. People just need to stand aside and let people do their job and make sure they have the resources necessary to complete the task.

That said, I'm hoping that this is true. It would also mean that the critics that claimed that 5 million lines of code needed to be rewritten were wildly wrong and that this was a more or less typical large scale computer implementation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

They are moving the contractor that did the datahub, which must be working, to be general contractor instead of CMS. These people already know a lot about the project.

Also apparently they tapped the insurance companies, who all have their own programming staffs, and they are supposed to help out with some things. The insurance companies have a huge financial stake in the website's success, and I am sure they will do whatever they can to help out.

I say the datahub must be working because the six states with purchasing exchanges (full-fledged exchanges) are also using the datahub, and they are getting better results than the federal website.

Creators of buggy HealthCare.gov face Congress

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/24/healthcare-web-sitecontractorsfacecongress.html

There are serious clams...fixes and running a full regression test by November end is very ambitious

do to the thing once "they" are able to access it.

Clusterfuck pending, imo.

It's not that big a deal. I know we all want immediate results, but it's just a little longer. I have decided not to even try until we hear the 'all clear.' It'll happen.

SimHealthcare.