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Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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Post by dgroves »

It is so odd to me that the second highest budget outlay is for a system "known as healthcare" for which, I receive none, unless I pay for insurance, which also doesn't pay for anything - rather they require I pay. This same system lost 272 billion to fraud last year.

Rather than clean up the fraud and corruption - we are getting a website?!?, and fines if we don't pay an insurance company to take our money and provide no benefits.

America doesn't have a health care system it has an illness system whence you become ill they are allowed to relieve you of all of your assets and leave you to die.

Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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Post by yeukhon »

brandonb wrote: post #7
rch wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance we could live stream this in Boulder?

Unfortunately we're not doing any recordings -- it's hard to be candid and recorded for all history at the same time. :(

If you can't get professional to record the event, just launch a Google Hangout broadcast on the speaker's computer so the sldie is recorded, add a microphone to him/her under $20 and you good to go. If the speaker is close to the computer just use the built-in microphone.

Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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Post by angersock »

brandonb wrote: post #7
rch wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance we could live stream this in Boulder?

Unfortunately we're not doing any recordings -- it's hard to be candid and recorded for all history at the same time. :(

It's not hard, it just requires honesty and integrity.

Check's already cashed, right?

Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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Post by enjo »

brandonb wrote: post #7
rch wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance we could live stream this in Boulder?

Unfortunately we're not doing any recordings -- it's hard to be candid and recorded for all history at the same time. :(

This is an absolutely baffling comment. Particularly for a community (hackers) that value openness and transparency above pretty much all else. What in the world are you talking about, to a general public audience, that can't be heard by the rest of the world?

Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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Post by enjo »

akoumjian wrote: post #9

The question I have is, how do we get government to hire teams like this in the first place?

It's incredibly difficult. When government money is involved the good old boy network swings into action. Contractors are picked based on political connections first and actual capabilities second.

Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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Post by toomuchtodo »

sp332 wrote: post #14

Why is this using Amazon servers? Wouldn't it make more sense to use purpose-built machines for this?

No. You serve the static assets from a CDN, but the authentication and dynamic content generation need to scale very quickly when you have an in rush of traffic. This is the perfect use case for Amazon AWS (GovCloud, specifically).

EDIT: Disclaimer: I did not work on Healthcare.gov, but did study up on the entire architecture while trying for a gig on the recovery team.

Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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Post by quaunaut »

brandonb wrote: post #2

A bunch of the folks in this article are Y Combinator or Google alumni, and we're giving a talk on Saving HealthCare.gov next Thursday in SF for anyone who's interested: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-healthcaregov-tickets-118... Let us know if you have questions! Or if you want to help. UPDATE: we seem to be sold out. Trying to find a larger venue. In the meantime, feel free to sign up on the waiting list and yo…

Damn, what luck. Gonna be in town just for next week, I definitely must attend this.

Re: Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time

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Post by iamdave »

brandonb wrote: post #7
rch wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance we could live stream this in Boulder?

Unfortunately we're not doing any recordings -- it's hard to be candid and recorded for all history at the same time. :(

Define: "Hard".

Technologically "hard" or Politically "hard"

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