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Health Care Reform is Dead

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
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there's way too much javascript on the site; they need to tighten that sh|t up & put it in the session object. the best haxxor weapon of choice? a browser in debug mode. if you have the time, i encourage you to play around with it & see the different states you can put your session in. truly magical.
 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
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Can we stay ahead of the UK in contractor scale failure? Failure for large federal IT launches like this are the norm, so what's so surprising about it...

20 billion USD spent and a decade to change direction on that mess for a population 80% smaller than ours

Another good article - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/25/wonkbook-how-healthcare-gov-looks-to-a-health-it-pioneer/
Has anybody proposed that the underlying issue might arise from the fact that the website was not built by tech-native companies, but large govt military contractors?
 

$tinkle

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Feb 12, 2003
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i trust you know how RFPs work...

so many axioms, idioms, & late nite jabs are borne out of gov't contracts. happy to report my client actually gives a shi7, now if they could just select the right team to do the job (hint: if you on-board naturalized citizens, insure their first language is the same as the user community)
 

stevew

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Sep 21, 2001
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Has anybody proposed that the underlying issue might arise from the fact that the website was not built by tech-native companies, but large govt military contractors?
or don't do business with friends?
 

$tinkle

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around 4:30 is the soup bone quote...revelation this was done under IDIQ (no-bid contract by any other name)
 

$tinkle

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as part of a spin off project me & a couple peers are doing, we did a 2 hr webex w/ AWS today, and based upon their fee structure, healthcare.gov **as it stands today** can be hosted for no more than $20k/month, and be highly available (but they only guarantee b/t 3 & 4 9s of availability)

that's a little more acceptable than the estimated $600M-$900M
 

syadasti

i heart mac
Apr 15, 2002
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that's a little more acceptable than the estimated $600M-$900M
Not so bad. The UK wasted a 20 billion USD for 1/10 the population size on their simpler single-payer records system which was a failure before the reorganization of their government IT projects...
 

$tinkle

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http://freebeacon.com/the-belarusian-connection/
Cyber security officials said the potential threat to the U.S. healthcare data is compounded by what they said was an Internet data “hijacking” last year involving Belarusian state-controlled networks. The month-long diversion covertly rerouted massive amounts of U.S. Internet traffic to Belarus—a repressive dictatorship located between Russia, Poland, and Ukraine.

“Belarusian President [Alexander] Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime is closely allied with Russia and is adversarial toward the United States,” the official added.

The combination of the Belarus-origin software, the Internet re-routing, and the anti-U.S. posture of the Belarusian government “makes the software written in Belarus a potential target of cyber attacks for identity theft and privacy violations” of Americans, the official said.

Security officials urged HHS to immediately conduct inspections of the network software for malicious code. The software currently is used in all medical facilities and insurance companies in the United States.
#slowClap
 

Jim Mac

MAKE ENDURO GREAT AGAIN
May 21, 2004
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AOL distressed baby oopsie doo!

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2014/February/11/more-aol-fallout.aspx

Tim Armstrong, the chief executive of AOL, apologized last weekend for publicly revealing sensitive health care details about two employees to explain why the online media giant had decided to cut benefits. He even reinstated the benefits after a backlash.

But patient and work force experts say the gaffe could have a lasting impact on how comfortable — or discomfited — Americans feel about bosses’ data-mining their personal lives.

Mr. Armstrong made a seemingly offhand reference to “two AOL-ers that had distressed babies that were born that we paid a million dollars each to make sure those babies were O.K.” The comments, made in a conference call with employees, brought an immediate outcry, raising questions over corporate access to and handling of employees’ personal medical data.

Some workers at other companies considered the likelihood that their bosses knew intimate details about their own families’ personal illnesses and treatments — and worried about the potential for those companies to disclose enough details about their health conditions to make them identifiable to colleagues. It was not long before a “distressed babies” meme emerged across social media.

EDIT: Wait, there are dISTRESSED BABY MEME'S!?!?!?
 
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$tinkle

Expert on blowing
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couple issues:
- he didn't reveal sensitive/hipaa/pii; so stop it
- the real villain is the industry, that's grossly padded for profit (or at least in an effort to offset write-offs from a group that shall go unnamed)
- is the suggestion AOL, et al., should not know what into what they're paying for their 100% voluntary labor force?