The campaign to defund the Affordable Care Act may have endeared him to the tea party, but Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is facing a disgruntled constituency at home for his leading role in the quixotic effort that led to the government shutdown and brought the United States close to default.
Last we heard of one-time tech pioneer John McAfee he was living out some sort modern day Heart of Darkness fantasy in Belize and suspected in the murder of a neighbor before becoming an international fugitive and doing all sorts of other awesome stuff. Now House Republicans want him to get to the bottom of what happened with the Obamacare rollout.
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Following up on TPM Reader ST's note about integrating multiple government legacy data systems, TPM Reader DS says the real issue might be slightly different ...
Hi Josh, I've been following your coverage of Healthcare.gov-gate and think that reader ST is close to nailing the problem, but I think it's bigger than just aging government infrastructure. I've been in the IT industry for over 10 years working at different state-regulated enterprises and I'm not so sure that the internal communication between aging governmental infrastructures are as big a problem as the interfacing that gets done with the external insurance companies.
From Readers who've had all the problems you've heard about with Healthcare.gov ...
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You had me at Slutbag.
Are we not grasping the nature of the problem itself? TPM Reader ST says the issue isn't so much the website as legacy computer systems throughout the federal bureaucracy and the need to stitch them all together until a single interface.
I've been following the flawed Healthcare.gov rollout with some interest. I've been working in the technology space for over 10 years, with experience both working on Federal systems and in the private sector.
What has surprised me most about the reaction to the rollout is how even seasoned IT pros seem to be misunderstanding large parts of the problem.
John Oliver reports from inside the HealthCare.gov mainframe:
Families have total carte blanche to memorialize their deceased family members in the settings and with the people they choose. So it doesn't surprise me Rep. Bill Young's widow sent Charlie Crist a note asking him not to attend. But giving the note to the press?
Cemetery officials removed Iraq vet's Spongebob gravestone, deeming it inappropriate.
There was plenty of bogus information that surfaced earlier this year when Congress considered expanding background checks on people who want to buy guns. But among the most persistent has been that a bill that was debated in the Senate would have created a national registry of gun owners.
The theory was so bogus that even Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) acknowledged at the time that the bill being debated had no such provision. In fact, it made it a felony to do so.
