I feel sorry for the folks that had to build the clusterfuck that became the Healthcare.gov web site. If you have ever worked on a government contract you will sympathize with them as well. Firstly, the government never writes a clear statement of what they want you to accomplish. They sort of write it as they go along. Each bureaucrat has things he wants to add or subtract and each and every one involved in the process wants his stamp on the outcome. Secondly, most or the government types have absolutely no knowledge of, or expertise of the subject under work. They add their own level of ignorance to every project. I wrote propulsion and weapons system tests for a ship yard building Missile boats on a contract for the Navy. Using tech manuals and the contract specs it was our job to write the tests that proved the systems would meet contract terms and worked as designed. The test could be written in a week and then sent to the navy for review and approval. A simple weapons foundation alignment test could be returned for revision up to thirteen times. In one I wrote ” mount the gunners quadrant aligned to the ‘000’ degree bearing line. The test came back with “To the ‘360’ degree bearing line”. This was added by Joe. Revised and resubmitted. It came back with. “to the ‘000’ degree bearing line. This time the reviewer was Mike. Joe and mike and several others played this game for several months. As a navigator I can tell you that ‘000’ and ‘360’ is the same point and there is no confusion in the real world.
This web site is the product of too many cooks applying politics to a technical undertaking.We are told that the software developers were told to hide the plans and the premiums behind a firewall of stupid useless questions that have nothing to do with the purchase of insurance. They asked you to for the first name of your paternal grandfather, hell, how many of Obama’s people know the real name of their own fathers? My grandfather’s first name was Wurt! No way that will compute. And there is no way this clusterfuck of a government system will ever compute either.
I feel sorry for the folks that had to build the clusterfuck that became the Healthcare.gov web site. If you have ever worked on a government contract you will sympathize with them as well. Firstly, the government never writes a clear statement of what they want you to accomplish. They sort of write it as they go along. Each bureaucrat has things he wants to add or subtract and each and every one involved in the process wants his stamp on the outcome. Secondly, most or the government types have absolutely no knowledge of, or expertise of the subject under work. They add their own level of ignorance to every project. I wrote propulsion and weapons system tests for a ship yard building Missile boats on a contract for the Navy. Using tech manuals and the contract specs it was our job to write the tests that proved the systems would meet contract terms and worked as designed. The test could be written in a week and then sent to the navy for review and approval. A simple weapons foundation alignment test could be returned for revision up to thirteen times. In one I wrote ” mount the gunners quadrant aligned to the ‘000’ degree bearing line. The test came back with “To the ‘360’ degree bearing line”. This was added by Joe. Revised and resubmitted. It came back with. “to the ‘000’ degree bearing line. This time the reviewer was Mike. Joe and mike and several others played this game for several months. As a navigator I can tell you that ‘000’ and ‘360’ is the same point and there is no confusion in the real world.
This web site is the product of too many cooks applying politics to a technical undertaking.We are told that the software developers were told to hide the plans and the premiums behind a firewall of stupid useless questions that have nothing to do with the purchase of insurance. They asked you to for the first name of your paternal grandfather, hell, how many of Obama’s people know the real name of their own fathers? My grandfather’s first name was Wurt! No way that will compute. And there is no way this clusterfuck of a government system will ever compute either.