Microsoft and the NSA Take Over the Obamacare Website

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Microsoft-and-the-NSA-Take-by-David-Spring-Domestic-Spying_Mass-Spying-Surveillance_Obamacare_Spying-131220-683.html

Microsoft and the NSA Take Over the Obamacare Website
OpEdNews Op Eds 12/20/2013 at 09:08:13
By David Spring

The Obamacare idea never was about helping people. After all, it was first proposed by corporate executives and Republicans during the Nixon administration as a way of increasing corporate profits by getting those deadbeat poor people to pay for their own healthcare. Under Obamacare, millions of people are still left without coverage. Those with pre-existing conditions (which is most of us) can be charged three times what others pay. In addition to monthly payments, there are also extremely high copays and deductibles -- amounting to thousands of extra dollars per year if you have the misfortune to get sick. Meanwhile, there is no limit to Wall Street greed and profits.

We recently learned that poor folks are having their bank accounts emptied to make their Obamacare payments. We also learned that low-income folks who sign up for Obamacare are forced to enroll in Medicaid -- where if they die with medical expenses owing, their estate is sold off to pay for their outstanding medical bills. Ironically, many of these low-income people have homes. The only reason they have a low annual income is that they lost their jobs due to the Wall Street gambling that crashed the economy in 2008. The lack of a job is also why they have no health insurance. Now adding insult to injury, to get health care they are being required to enroll in Medicaid and thereby hand over the title to their homes. For more on this insanity, see
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022469957_medicaidrecoveryxml.html

Just when you think things could not get any worse, another bombshell is dropped on our heads. It was just announced that Microsoft millionaire Kurt DelBene has been appointed to take over the Obamacare website.



Up until a couple of days ago, Kurt was the head of Microsoft Office. While running Microsoft Office, one of his many questionable decisions was trashing the simple Microsoft Word 2003 top menu and replacing it with an extremely complex and ever changing "ribbon" in Word 2007. The Obamacare website is already too complex. Kurt is the last person one would want to "fix" this problem. In addition, Kurt has no background in website functioning and design. So why was Kurt chosen to fix one of the worst rollouts in website history?

[snot]

1. I can't agree with the first part of the article; but

the idea of turning to Microsoft to fix software problems in general, let alone user interface problems, is horrifying.