Obamacare's Epic Fail

I flew back to Salt Lake from Oakland on Friday evening and couldn't help but notice all of the TV's showing President Obama apologizing for people losing benefits because of his affordable care act. Imagine that, a politician not realizing the long-term effects of his legislation. It seems that all of the politicians who were in favor of Obamacare never bothered to read the bill and just passed it because of partisan politics. I guess I'll chalk up reading as another thing the politicians running our country don't know how to do.

Right now I work for a company that provides great health benefits and so I am not one of the many Americans that will find himself "taxed" for not having healthcare once Obamacare goes into effect. I am concerned about the computer system that we Americans spent $400 Million to create though. What did we get for that price tag? A "clunky" system built by Canadians using 10-year-old technology. Now I have nothing against Canada or its citizens. Some of my best friends are technical geniuses and come from our neighbor to the North. They just happen to live in Silicon Valley now and that is where our government should have gone to build our nation's healthcare website.

If you look at the population of the United States, there are currently around 321 Million Americans. If you look at how much traffic popular massive multi-player online (MMO) video games process, it is in the billions of transactions per day. That means that any number of video game companies could build a website to meet the demands of every man, woman, and child pressing the "submit" button within an 8-hour window and still have enough processing power to kill a few monsters. Furthermore these same video game companies could build the entire system for around $10 Million. I think there are a large number of other companies outside the video game industry that could also have solved this problem. How many people do you think visit Google or Yahoo on a daily basis?

Kathleen Sebelius is the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human services and has gone on the record as saying that she is the responsible party for the Obamacare website's dismal failure. If that is the case, why is she still employed?