>>>You know that and I know that but lawmakers who have bloviated about the need for "health care reform" while taking money with both hands from the trial lawyers lobby (one of the consistently largest contributors to the Democratic party) may know but certainly choose to ignore it. It is the reason that the righteousness of those who drove through Obamacare had something of a falseness to it for me.
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>>>It *could* even go beyond that. There are reports (and just that....reports...no hard proof) that the millions of dollars that supposedly went to ACHA website contractors didn't all go to the contractors, that some $$$ got laundered back to the DNC.
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>>Even I could tell Obama (if he asked me nicely) that a project of such magnitude (or even smaller) in version 1.0 never works. Never! Version 1.0 usually is to find the approach that does not work. Then start rewriting the entire project and call it version 2.0. Maybe in version 3.0 it becomes a stable solution.
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>>I hear on the news that they have to correct about 5 million lines of code. Do they mean change the naming convention of variables? :). What they don’t say is that the 5 million lines of code have to be Deleted – Completely. And the new 5 million lines of code should be written. Or maybe 3 million or maybe 10 million. This project – Obamacare web site – reminds me of Boston Big Dig. Started with a few billion dollars and ended with many, many billion dollars (of my money).
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>>During the Y2K time I remember seeing a nice new corvette with the license plate ‘Y2K’.. I bet many people will be driving late model new cars with license plate “Obamacare” :)
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>I would apply for it except it's too many letters! (I am joking).
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>My guess is the 5 million lines of code refers to the total lines of code and only some portion will need to be changed.
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>I started out as a mainframe programmer, assembler and then COBOL. Some of my old cohorts stayed in that arena a lot longer than I did and did very well with Y2K. It didn't bother me. Since switching over to PC development I can't even imagine going back, even though I understand there are still jobs (developer base retiring or dying off).

We were a mixed COBOL/Fox shop and every status meeting we'd have for Y2K, I'd have to dodge stuff being thrown at me 'cuz my answer was always "I'm done...it's amazing what "Set Century On" does for you"

But I still got the Y2K bonus - less taxes