More on the Obamacare IT nightmare
Michael Barone
March 20, 2013 | 11:49 am

"In response to my blogpost on how setting up the information technology for Obamacare is an “impossible endeavor,” Reader John Capron of Modena, New York, whose LinkedIn profile shows 35 years of IT experience, has given me permission to quote the following, which I pass along without further comment:

“Wow, what can go wrong here?

Let me assess this based on my years of experience in this industry. The federal government is going to build 50 exchanges, using a data hub that doesn’t exist physically and in fact, the design hasn’t been solidified, and must be accessible to a variety of data processing technologies that range from archaic to old. Each of the 50 states have different eligibility rules, and with a significant number of states opting out, the federal government now has to learn the intricacies of each state’s Medicaid eligibility models which then scale to different applicability rules for different members of a given family. The thousands of pages of bureaucratic rules that will drive requirements haven’t been completed yet, and those requirements are needed to drive design not only for the application programs, but for the entire processing architecture.

The issue of network, processor, and storage performance has to be decided, modeled and tested.

To complicate matters, the convoluted federal procurement rules for hardware and software have to be adhered to,
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More at:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/more-on-th...article/2524900

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More on the Obamacare IT nightmare
Michael Barone
March 20, 2013 | 11:49 am

"In response to my blogpost on how setting up the information technology for Obamacare is an “impossible endeavor,” Reader John Capron of Modena, New York, whose LinkedIn profile shows 35 years of IT experience, has given me permission to quote the following, which I pass along without further comment:

“Wow, what can go wrong here?

Let me assess this based on my years of experience in this industry. The federal government is going to build 50 exchanges, using a data hub that doesn’t exist physically and in fact, the design hasn’t been solidified, and must be accessible to a variety of data processing technologies that range from archaic to old. Each of the 50 states have different eligibility rules, and with a significant number of states opting out, the federal government now has to learn the intricacies of each state’s Medicaid eligibility models which then scale to different applicability rules for different members of a given family. The thousands of pages of bureaucratic rules that will drive requirements haven’t been completed yet, and those requirements are needed to drive design not only for the application programs, but for the entire processing architecture.

The issue of network, processor, and storage performance has to be decided, modeled and tested.

To complicate matters, the convoluted federal procurement rules for hardware and software have to be adhered to,
. . ..”

More at:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/more-on-th...article/2524900

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I'm scared. I'll be honest with you all. I'm frightened. I think Obamacare will cause the economy to go off the rails like nothing else. I'm serious. I think it's that bad. Obama is bad in general, but I think we could have survived him, after all we survived FDR, LBJ, etc. But Obamacare is phenomenally bad in a big way and it's coming at just the most critical moment, when a lot of companies are hanging on by a thread.

I just wouldn't make any big purchases from now until 2014 if I were you all.

Hoisted by their own petard...