"if you like your doctor we don't give a ****."

[JoseCuervo]

Ever watched 'The producers' ? It describes the concept quite well. Doesn't matter whether the project succeeds of fails, all that counts is to skim off your management fees.

That doesn't make sense in this context.

Maybe you can think of another approach.


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[nddons]

Ahhh...... more concerned with the politics than with the law and the results.

Got it.

Keep tilting at them windmills, and maybe you will get one, Mr. Quixote.

Dude. You're the one who blamed Rubio. Man up and admit your Huffpo talking points were illogical because a single senator, or even the entire Senate, or even the entire legislative branch can't make a bill into law.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Dude. You're the one who blamed Rubio. Man up and admit your Huffpo talking points were illogical because a single senator, or even the entire Senate, or even the entire legislative branch can't make a bill into law.

Yeah. I blame Rubio.

Not that difficult.


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[nddons]

Did any of those guys go to trial?

With Obama's partisan AG's and his Justice Department? Have you been drinking?

 

[JoseCuervo]

And if anybody prefers data as compared to Faux News blogs....

 

[weilke]

And if anybody prefers data as compared to Faux News blogs....

Oh the joy of picking and choosing your 'data'. Gallup was very careful not to do that subtraction on the table further down in the article that lists the numbers for all the states. 8 and 10% improvement in the top-10 sure looks better than the 2 and 4% numbers in some of the other states. Also, by restricting the analysis to the first half of the year, you avoid that little problem with people dropping their plans mid-year when they realize that they bought no-surance and decide to spend the money on something else. Even if you have a chronic disease, if you load up on meds in August and know that you are going to have new coverage in January, why spend 5 months worth of premiums ?

 

[denverpilot]

Can't keep up with your conspiracy theories.


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Oh that one isn't any conspiracy. That's straight graft.

How many companies know how to build websites that scale to national use in the U.S.? I can think of a few. I've even physically touched their server farms.

That company had zero track record of being able to accomplish such a task and won a bid to do it.

Having been involved in government contracts before, the only way that happens is someone purposefully tailors the contract "needs" such that only one company can possibly meet them.

What big websites had that company built before winning that bid? Bob's Truck Stop and Feed Store.com?

I wouldn't even have to try hard to name actual people who can and have built websites of larger traffic scale than that website, and ask you if you wanted me to look up their cell numbers in my speed dials in my cell phone.

MapQuest, Expedia, all sorts of brands you'd recognize. I've stood in front of their system cabinets when they were my customer and helped them figure out problems.

(MapQuest was totally on its ass twice and I helped fix it, once with a bad router throwing garbage into their network and once with a malfunctioning load balancer that wasn't handling DNS requests properly. Expedia just needed an entire cabinet of Windows machines rebooted simultaneously to sync the site back up with their other sites. MapQuest never was the same after AOL bought them. Expedia, I lost track of how expensive their redesign was going to be when I got out of the data center biz, but they'd learned what not to do and they were engineering a better system.)

It's cute when you play dumb, but realize some of us actually do work in that particular industry and can see through any press release crap about why a website is on its ass. We've seen our own and customer's PR people write that copy and know how deep and wide that particular crap river flows.

An example: "Building a website of this scale is hard and will take time to get right."

Bull****. It's a known quantity for most of us who actually DO it, and when they fail, there's usually an email in my outbox from months prior that detailed exactly this failure as a potential and significant risk to business operations, if I cared to re-send it. But I don't. I'm busy undoing the stupidity once that fire starts.

When you want your **** to work, you hire me. Or lots of other people that can and have done it. I'm a pretty good choice since I don't need the job, so I don't have any reason to blow smoke up your ass. And I've been there and done that.

When you want to launder donation money, and scratch political backs, you hire those guys. Blatantly clear and not a "conspiracy" at all. Just a political oligarchy.

Or if you don't like my style, I can find ya a bunch of names in my cell who will either cover up their stripes and pretend to be nicer, or who'll match your perfect political ideology... and both will know how to accomplish a large website build. A few can even do the budgeting and ordering of the gear along with the engineering.

Most of them are busy all the time. Bring cash and good perks when you call or you're wasting their time.

 

[NHWannabe]

And if anybody prefers data as compared to Faux News blogs....

I don't believe anyone argued the point that the uninsured rate went down...the question is at what cost, benefit and means of reducing it (penalty).

But as you advised another poster, keep tilting at that Fox News windmill.

Kudos on the distraction from the failed co-ops.