Comments on: Deconstructing the healthcare.gov website fiasco https://dfarq.homeip.net/deconstructing-the-healthcare-gov-website-fiasco/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deconstructing-the-healthcare-gov-website-fiasco David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:19:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/deconstructing-the-healthcare-gov-website-fiasco/#comment-32738 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:26:03 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6922#comment-32738 In reply to joseph.

Well, that’s another can of worms. Keeping it IT, some kind of web site would be necessary to support a single-payer system. Probably the site would be simpler, but it’s a roll of the dice whether that project would have gone better.

]]> By: joseph https://dfarq.homeip.net/deconstructing-the-healthcare-gov-website-fiasco/#comment-32732 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:52:01 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6922#comment-32732 Dave,
Thank you for the explanation.
I guess the luddites that wanted a single payer system were right. We could have saved a billion dollars, on a website, by simply letting the taxpayer foot the bill for health care.
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