Discussion: FBI Is Investigating Oregon's Botched Obamacare Rollout

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It is about time we started asking some serious questions about the perpetual glitches that popped up, not just in Oregon but also in the national ACA site.

No doubt the administration was reticent to ask these questions at the time, because they would have been mercilessly attacked for “blaming shadows” for their own failures, but anyone who has been to the site and has programming experience will agree, there should not have been issues like we all faced, unless someone somewhere was throwing monkey wrenches into the works.

Even Ebay’s online presence would struggle, if hackers were attacking it incessantly.

The facts are there to search out, so let the games begin.

Set the geekhounds loose and let them find the culprits… it takes a hacker to find a hacker.

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That explains that advertising agency exec’s over the top response to John Oliver. I guess it’s better to be fucking stupid than criminal.

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Their first question was “What’s with the cutesy ad?” To which Mark Ray, the owner of the company that created the useless but cutesy ad pulled a Sgt, Schulz about the website:

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Sure the website failed…but I still got my insurance, and I had very little problem using the telephone and fax machine to send application paperwork and the Cover Oregon staff made courtesy calls and sent postcard updates. BTW, excellent coverage for an extremely reasonable premium.

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But Oracle lead the project? Geesh. This is not exactly a company with a reputation for incompetence. What’s up with that?

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Oracle did not have the talent on hand or the experience with web design necessary to create a successful website on the scale needed by Cover Oregon. But they went forward anyway, and the site was destined to fail.

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Perhaps the FBI is looking at that ‘destined to fail’ as being ‘planned obsolescence’?

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Oracle may be great for database software, but show me one web site of any significance they built. Just one. You cannot, because there are not any.

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I know it was possible to still get coverage and I’m glad it’s working for you. I don’t like that federal funds (300 million of them) went to pay a contractor who delivered zero sign ups. That’s my issue.

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I’m assuming you’ve never used a website run by them. If you had, you would have said “This is not exactly a company with a reputation for compentence.”

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I’m with you on that 100% Wasted millions dictate that someone be held accountable.

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You clearly aren’t familiar with Oracle… especially their consulting arm.

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My son also has coverage through the website. It’s a shame all stories neglect to mention everyone in Oregon who have been set up, even with issues the website has had. Not the total failure as being put out there.

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It would be nice if this led to a revamp of the way that government software development projects happen in general. So many entrenched players whose talent is in getting contracts, not fulfilling them. And so many officials who don’t really have consequences for shoveling money at losers.

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Absolutely. It has crossed my mind several times at the risk of sounding like conspiracy theorist which I am not 99% of the time

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Yeah nobody likes that. There are a lot of thing I don’t like, especially that oil companies are subsidized to the tune of 10 plus billion a year and that corporations like GE for example don’t pay taxes

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Right on chammy–I’d like, but I hit my daily limit : (

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You have a fax machine??!!

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It’s over 15 years old, but you would be surprised how many big corporations still use fax.