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posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 18 2014, @09:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the same-thing-over-and-over-again-and-expexting-different-results dept.

GungnirSniper writes:

"CGI Group, the Montreal-based IT consulting company behind the botched rollout of the Federal Healthcare.gov site, has been removed from the Massachusetts Health Connector project. This comes about two months after being removed from Healthcare.gov, and a few weeks after CGI admitted the MA site 'may not be fully functioning by the end of June, and that one option under consideration is to scrap the multi-million-dollar site and start over.'

Like Oregon's similar troubles, Massachusetts uses paper submissions as a workaround to meet Federal sign-up requirements. 'The paper backlog fell to 21,000 pending applications, from 54,000 two weeks ago.'

If you are in the US, have you used Healthcare.gov or a State equivalent? If you are not in the US, do you use similar online systems in your nation?"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday March 18 2014, @12:54PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 18 2014, @12:54PM (#18044) Journal

    I lost my Dad to Fox News and we aren't even Americans.

    I can't think of a more astonishing situation: their generation [wikipedia.org] when [wikipedia.org] young [wikipedia.org].

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:03PM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:03PM (#18049)

    Damn hippies...

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Angry Jesus on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:28PM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:28PM (#18068)

    > I can't think of a more astonishing situation: their generation when young.

    There is a saying, loosely attributed to Edmund Burke:

    "If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain"

    FWIW, if that is true, it would make me a heartless idiot.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday March 18 2014, @05:05PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @05:05PM (#18163)

      That quote is simply enlightened self-interest: Conservative policies tend to be about preserving assets for those who have them. Liberal policies tend to be about supporting those with no assets so they are at least not dying on the streets.

      Most 25-year-olds have no assets, because they get junior-level pay and have had no time to save up any meager surplus they manage to acquire. (Plus they might be spending the money in stupid ways, because they're 25). So being liberal is in your self-interest because you're more likely to need that extra support for broke people.

      Many 35-year-olds, by contrast, have assets, because they now get senior-level pay and have had a decade to sock it away or turn it into a house or invest it. So being conservative is in your self-interest because you want to make sure nobody else takes what you've worked so hard to acquire.

      These are far from universal, of course, but they explain how the quote is commonly perceived as reality.

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18 2014, @05:10PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18 2014, @05:10PM (#18165)

        I don't think "enlightened" is the right modifier here. In fact, I think you can just stick to "self-interest" alone in order to fully capture the motivations of the people who say it (who invariably consider themselves to be in the group who "have a brain.")