Tech official Henry Chao says 40% of work not done

[WelfareQueen]

Does this remark refer to both hardware and software?
It's a rather simple site so 60% of simple could be less than a week's worth.
Unfortunately, for a nation supposedly so technically savvy, few people really understand what's keeping this site from being able to handle the volume.

Make your life easier, go to your State's Health Care site.

Two things genius. One, 34 states have no site. All they have is healthcare.gov. Second, a simple site? The program has half a trillion lines of code. Oy vey.

Which tells you right there that the people who are writing the code are incompetent.

It isn't like the insurance companies don't already have software that taps into databases of information that then uses that information to calculate risk and cost.

If the law was written properly, access to the databases for the major carriers would be a requirement (after all, these companies stand to gain financially by this law) and then the back office can be created that makes use of what databases do best, Create, Read, Update, and Delete records.

Making use of the SQL for clients who sign up to calculate costs is then just a matter of plugging in information to a formulator.

Couple million lines of code in Java or C# tops.

The HTML, JavaScript, and CSS is 5,000 lines of code, tops (Provided they are smart enough to utilize templates.)

You are right. One of the experts yesterday testified that Healthcare.gov had 25X more code than Facebook or Amazon. He was basically saying it is a complete piece of shit.