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To: greenspirit who wrote (543217)	10/14/2013 9:57:23 AM
From: Bill	1 Recommendation Recommended By D. Long Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793549

I have noticed that gov websites in general aren't very well designed. Always figured it was because they were developed by political cronies instead of professional IT consultants.

To: greenspirit who wrote (543217)	10/14/2013 10:32:02 AM
From: DMaA	1 Recommendation Recommended By Jorj X Mckie Respond to of 793549

The difference is you would have a series of well thought out goals for your web site which could be translated into adequate specifications for the programmers to implement. No such thing in the government. Programmers have to write the program so the bureaucrats can find out what's in the program. You cannot model something in software that is inherently illogical.

To: greenspirit who wrote (543217)	10/14/2013 12:35:12 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	4 Recommendations Recommended By CF Rebel skinowski SmoothSail TideGlider Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793549

Americans know how to build incredible websites, far more complex than a government health care website, yet we squandered the dollars,squandered the resources and failed. Why? Tthe answer is simple. One size does not fit all. ACA is trying to be everything to everybody. In trying to meet everybody's needs, they are not, and will not, meet anybody's needs. This was the beauty of the structure of the United States. This was the efficiency of the free market This is why mainframes with dumb satellite terminals have been replaced with computers at every desktop A centralized government that tries to provide all of the services of a society must necessarily exert more and more control on the people to provide these services so that they are kept manageable. Unfortunately, with increasing numbers of people and increasing amounts of diversity in culture and background, it is impossible to control the complexity. The ACA is too complex before it has even started. It is already collapsing under its own weight. But they'll patch it up so that it appears to be functioning. And in the process they will make it even more complex and cumbersome. Centralized control systems simply do not scale. They don't scale in governments, they don't scale in markets and they don't scale in computer or networking systems. And they definitely will not work in healthcare systems.