He who is without sin may cast the first stone. Or maybe it's people who live in glass houses shouldn't...anyway, I know there's a cliche here somewhere. But the bottom line is that the outrage and indignation expressed by members of Congress who wouldn't know how to create a website if there lives depended on it, are not really the ones I want to hear from re: healthcare.gov. Particularly those GOPers who have expressed their commitment to seeing the law (and programs associated with it) fail outright. And there's nothing more galling than the $500 million LIE that the TeaPartiers are spewing - if I hear one more person quote that figure as fact I might start throwing things myself.
In today's New Thinking article, Gerry McGovern makes a lot of good points about the ACA website. But he shouldn't have limited it to government websites. The primary technical problem that lead to such performance failure- integration of legacy databases - is a small fraction of the real issue. The politics of website creation extends far beyond the walls of government. Most website issues are not about technology but something much harder to quantify and pigeonhole into a soundbite for a world obsessed with not knowing the details. I'm just sayin'....
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