[speechlesstx]

The reality is the administration never performed final testing on the exchange site's security measures.

(CBS News) WASHINGTON -- The health care website went down again Monday for an hour and a half, and no one is sure why. It's being taken offline on purpose every night from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. for repairs. Millions are still having trouble buying insurance on it, and it turns out that even when the website works, it may not be secure enough to protect privacy.

As HealthCare.gov was being developed, crucial tests to ensure the security and privacy of customer information fell behind schedule.

CBS News analysis found that the deadline for final security plans slipped three times from May 6 to July 16. Security assessments to be finished June 7 slid to August 16 and then August 23. The final, required top-to-bottom security tests never got done.

The House Oversight Committee released an Obama administration memo that shows four days before the launch, the government took an unusual step. It granted itself a waiver to launch the website with "a level of uncertainty ... deemed as a high (security) risk."

Agency head Marilyn Tavenner accepted the risk and "mitigation" measures like frequent testing and a dedicated security team. But three other officials signed a statement saying that "does not reduce the risk" of launching October 1.

That is simply inexcusable, but I'm sure some of you will try.

[tomder55]

There is septic code in the basic programing of the web site . They will never find it unless they completely scrap it and start over .

[NeedKarma]

There is septic code in the basic programing of the web site .

How do you know? Are you a web developer? Can you give us some clues as how you discovered this?

[tomder55]

No... but I've listened to enough programmers over the last month to determine that there is a high degree of probability that there is no quick fix . I obviously did not invent the term . I knew nothing about it in fact until I began looking a little deeper into the challenges faced with fixing it .
Here is one of the sights that speculates about it ,and there are others ;and also IT people who have been on television and radio .
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/10...ajor-overhaul/

[NeedKarma]

That article is a good read, thanks, it's written in a different style that most most tech articles.

[talaniman]

Budget request denied, Sebelius turns to health executives to finance Obamacare

The Affordable Care Act included $1 billion to be used in overall implementation of the law. Congressional Budget Office projections, however, estimated that federal agencies will need between $5 billion and $10 billion to get the law up and running over the next decade. And because many states have refused to partner with the federal government in setting up the law, the burden on HHS has grown.

HHS has repeatedly requested additional funds from Congress to assist in the implementing but has been turned down.

After Congress rejected a request in March for nearly $1 billion in additional spending for fiscal 2013, the White House asked for $1.5 billion for fiscal 2015 to set up and run dozens of exchanges that will provide Americans options for health insurance. The new marketplaces will launch in October for open enrollment.

"We requested additional money . . . but we didn't receive any additional funding for the exchanges," Ellen Murray, HHS's assistant secretary for financial resources, said last month at a budget briefing. "So we've had to come up with a Plan B. We've been working very hard to develop that."

You wingers promised to defund, repeal, delay, obstruct. You kept your word didn't you? Now you blame... well you did that before too.

[tomder55]

The root of the problem can be traced to crony capitalism employed by the regime. The article I referenced noted the poor history of the main contractor CGI .

What it doesn't speak of is the crony relationship that Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett have with top execs at CGI .

George Schindler, CGI Group president for U.S. and Canada, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company won the ObamaCare contract, a pattern we've seen in green-energy stimulus money going to companies like Solyndra.

As it happens, the Daily Caller reports that Michelle Obama's college roomie Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of '85, is a senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million ObamaCare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov.

There may be another Canadian connection as well.

Valerie Jarrett's daughter, Laura, is married to Tony Balkissoon. He is the son of Bas Balkissoon, a member of the Ontario legislature whose jobs have included, among other things, a stint as parliamentary assistant to the minister of Health and Long-Term Care from 2007-10. It's all in the family.

Did Valerie Jarrett And Michelle Obama Pick ObamaCare Website Developer? - Investors.com

[speechlesstx]

I believe tom touched on this earlier. I'll be waiting on Tal to offer us his greedy profits before people crony capitalism speech after reading this...

Does Hillary Clinton’s Enthusiasm for Profit Extend Beyond Her Own Earnings?

[talaniman]

Do you guys ever quit?

CMS taps IT firm CGI for Sunshine Act Data Dump

The CMS/CGI contract is the most recent addition to what appears to be a strong record of organic growth for CGI Federal, the federal government division of CGI located in Fairfax, Virginia. CGI has been supporting CMS websites like Medicare.gov since 1999, according to CGI's website. In 2004, CGI announced the signing of several CMS contracts totaling over $100 million, and including technical solutions and support for CMS's Health Plan Management System, Fraud Investigation Database, and physician enrollment and identification systems, in addition to maintaining Medicare.gov.

But don't let a few facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory. OR a good LIE, whichever.

[smoothy]

Fact is they have lots of close connection with the Obamas...

I seem to remember you among others whining about Cheney having once had anything to do with Haliburton... you should all be having strokes over CGI's insider connections with the White house... if not the fact it was a no-bid deal on its own for that much money.

[tomder55]

They also have a subsidiary (Silver Oak Solutions )that operates PRISM for the NSA... How's that for a coincidence ?

[talaniman]

The government contracts everything out. Cheney and Halliburton was no coincidence either.

[smoothy]

The government contracts everything out. Cheney and Halliburton was no coincidence either.

Connecting those two is nothing like Michelle's connections and this no-bid contract, and the same no-bid fix the first screw-up contract. All the same connections.

Why didn't something that expensive go up for bid... there are thousands of companies in the USA who could have done it... and all of them would have done a better job, for a fraction of the cost.

The difference is the Obama's wouldn't have gotten millions in kickbacks.

[talaniman]

Who got the kick backs in 1999-2004?

[smoothy]

Who got the kick backs in 1999-2004?

Wasn't Cheney or Bush...

And incidentally there were only a couple companies big enough or skilled enough to handle projects the size of that... Halliburton was one, if it was power or construction related there is Bechtel... and only a couple others... some of those were not American Companies.

And it wasn't a buddy buddy, disaster like the website... there have been IT professionals who have said for all that the Obamacare website was supposed to do... it could have all been done for less than a Million and they would have felt like they were robbing the government at that price.

I bet Obama owns a lot of stock in CGI... all acquired before they awarded the contract to them without any bids or oversight.

Has the drive by media even investigated that yet? I know the answer...they didn't. Obama gets a free ride on everything . He could be pulling the legs off kittens every day.....in public at press conferences and they would still cover for him.

[speechlesstx]

Who got the kick backs in 1999-2004?

Thanks for validating my point.

[talaniman]

Your welcome.

[tomder55]

Let's see... during a two year period Halliburton's revenue from Defense Department contracts doubled. That would be 1998 -2000 . And why did the Clintonoids prefer Halliburton ? The Goracle's ' National Performance Review 'mentioned Halliburton's performance in its Report on 'Reinventing the Department of Defense,'. In a section titled “Outsourcing of Logistics Allows Combat Troops to Stick to Basics,” His group favorably mentioned Halliburton for providing “basic life support services — food, water, sanitation, shelter, and laundry; and the full realm of logistics services — transportation, electrical, hazardous materials collection and disposal, fuel delivery, airfield and seaport operations, and road maintenance.”

[Tuttyd]

I believe tom touched on this earlier. I'll be waiting on Tal to offer us his greedy profits before people crony capitalism speech after reading this...

Does Hillary Clinton's Enthusiasm for Profit Extend Beyond Her Own Earnings?

I don't think this needs much explanation. Politics is also about governments picking winners and losers in the market place. Most smart corporations are careful to make sure both bases are covered. It is the type of cronyism both sides practise.

You don't have to tell me, I know. No one is interested in any arguments dealing with ruling elites.

[speechlesstx]

Tut, some of us acknowledge it is practiced in both sides. Some just rant about the other side doing it.