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Oregon could take down its Obamacare website in April |
2014-01-22 |
Pretty devastating indictment of the supporters of the Affordable care Act, unless you're a leftist, then it's business as usual. Read the whole thing, by John Fund: Not surprisingly, Cover Oregon went bust after it launched on October 1. Rocky King, its executive director, has been on leave since November and is set to retire from state service in March. Since Cover Oregon's launch, the website has seen 23,000 people select a private health plan. But state officials admitted last week they didn't know how many have paid their premium, which is required before they're officially covered. The decision on whether to pull the plug on the website will be made by April 1. An apt cutoff date. |
Posted by:badanov |
#13 It looks here like the management didn't have a clue about what they were doing Remember the feds held back on particulars in, rightful, fear that if they leaked out before the election, O and the bunch would get hosed in November. A little hard to program something when big (decision tree and options) boxes litter the design up till a couple of months before launch. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-01-22 19:19 |
#12 I am just glad it rolled of the assembly line and sunk to the bottom of the ocean like a brick. We don't need socialist medicine. Microsoft server farms, with either SQL Server or Oracle as the backend database with a .NET web portal written in C# would have worked and is scalable and easily integrates with other platforms used by the government, insurance companies, etc.. Load/Stress testing of both the server farm and network as well as blackbox testing of the web pages would have perfected the system. BUT the ultimate goal was reached, politicians who couldn't get a job flipping hamburgers got rich while the general public got a sack of you know what in return. Guess who is laughing all the way to the bank. |
Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-01-22 18:15 |
#11 The website cost 7000 dollars PER APPLICANT.. W T F ! |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-01-22 17:28 |
#10 #6 is my nomination for snark of the day. |
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-01-22 17:15 |
#9 I imagine they also made basic changes late in the project causing a lot of re-design and re-work. Yes. That's always a killer, especially when the managers don't know the first frickin' thing about what they're doing. Been there. Done that. But that's what I'm asking: How big? How complex? How many lines of code? Where's the spec? And, finally, was anybody watching the budget or did they just get a blank check? If I can ask these questions why couldn't the governor or the legislators? What about the reporters? And, yes, Oracle has been known to contribute to election campaigns. |
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-01-22 17:08 |
#8 They didn't follow the usual business model. Usually, the route is to wait until after launch to gut QA. Looks like they gutted QA right after drawing up requirements. Somebody was going to try it at some point. |
Posted by: Rex Mundi 2014-01-22 16:27 |
#7 Theres a lot more to software engineering than 'a bunch of programmers' especially for a project this size and complex. It looks here like the management didn't have a clue about what they were doing and actively ignored and suppressed any sort of criticism. I imagine they also made basic changes late in the project causing a lot of re-design and re-work. And of course they didn't even *TEST* it (where have we heard that before?). Things got so bad that Ying Kwong, a technology analyst working for the state, talked about going to Oregon’s Department of Justice to block the exchange from going live. “How can the state conduct business like this?” he asked in an e-mail. Kwong compared the relentless advance of the exchange website to the monster in the sci-fi movie classic The Blob. The Oregonian reported that Cover Oregon “seemingly couldn’t be stopped due to its amorphous shape and political momentum.” Kwong wrote that “you simply don’t know how to shoot this beast, because it does not have a known anatomy with the normal vital organs that make it tick.” And it hasn't even been TESTED before opening. Kwong, the IT specialist, couldn’t believe the self-delusion. "After all, there is no testable software release, no technical environment, and the paper forms are not even ready to go to the printer.” |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-01-22 16:14 |
#6 Cover Oregon was to be the vaunted "national model" for Obama Care; and so it is. |
Posted by: regular joe 2014-01-22 15:35 |
#5 Isn't Oracle supposed to know something about databases? Also excellent analysis EU. I mean sheeesh..... Hell with that kinda money I would have at least had the worlds largest Rick Roller in place. |
Posted by: Shipman 2014-01-22 15:34 |
#4 Did somebody say Oracle? They do a lot of good stuff but I think we all know Mr. Ellison can be a bit on the sharp side at times. Maybe Gray Davis could tell us a story or two about Oracle. |
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-01-22 15:32 |
#3 Carolyn Lawson, the embattled state technology executive... decided the state could manage the complex exchange project itself, rather than hire a private-sector systems integrator, a decision since criticized by her superiors. As The Oregonian reported [December 15, 2013], the exchange has been plagued by poor work by Oracle. Miscues by state managers have also figured prominently in the exchange's issues. An August 2012 report from the project's quality assurance contractor found the exchange project was disorganized, lacked basic management and budget controls to ensure contractor performance. The exchange's fate was further endangered by distrust and lack of communication between Lawson's Oregon Health Authority and Cover Oregon, the public corporation that took over responsibility for the exchange's contracts in May 2013. As recently as [mid December 2013], Lawson defended the choice of Oracle and the decision not to hire a systems integrator. The exchange was built with Oracle software and hardware, so who better than Oracle to manage the process, she said. Lawson worked closely with Oracle when she worked for two California state agencies before her hiring by Oregon. Tina Edlund, acting OHA director, sent out an email shortly after 2 p.m. [December 19, 2013] announcing Lawson's departure. In an email to her bosses, Lawson said the recent death of her mother-in-law convinced her to make the move. She'd been commuting to Oregon weekly from her home in the Sacramento area. |
Posted by: Pappy 2014-01-22 15:21 |
#1 But state officials admitted last week they didnÂ’t know how many have paid their premium. TRANSLATION: Damn few, if any. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-22 02:26 |