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  OT: ObamaCare vs. Google "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-11-28 07:21 -0500
    Re: ObamaCare vs. Google "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2013-11-29 22:02 -0600

#1084 — OT: ObamaCare vs. Google

This is about ObamaCare's massive technology failure.

This article demonstrates how easy it is for Google
and it's users to setup a website with 1 million
requests per second, sustained, under 10 minutes,
and under $10 (USD) to it's users:

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2013/11/compute-engine-load-balancing-hits-1-million-requests-per-second.html

1) "... was able to demonstrate how to scale a cloud
application deployment within 5 seconds after the
setup, without pre-warming, enabling Google Cloud
customers to serve 1 million requests per second
and sustain that level for an indefinite period of
time."

2) " ... took a total of 7 minutes and 30 seconds."

3) "This entire setup and test cost just $10 USD!"

It takes me longer to eat than it takes them to setup
a commercial grade cloud application.

Now, compare that to the ObamaCare website.  It's expected
to crash again this holiday weekend because 200,000 users
are expected sign up but the website can only handle 50,000.
Yes, you read that correctly...

Cost of the ObamaCare website?  Half a billion dollars (USD)
and climbing.  It seems I was wrong about Obama.  He is
doing something to spur the U.S. economy.  It's just a
question of which economy...  I wonder how much of that was
diverted into illegal arms and drugs?  How much went untaxed
into offshore accounts?  There is no way on Earth that more
than one percent that money made it into the website.  Maybe,
they should scrap the website, give that link to a High School
student, from a high ranking H.S., who has good grades, who is
in a computer club and pay him two hundred bucks to create
a new website... Fifteen minutes later, before his lunch hour
is over, we'd have a new website.  That would shave two to
five billion dollars off our taxes and healthcare.  Some of
that non-spent money could be spent to pay for the DOJ and
FBI to investigate where exactly and to what criminals all
that money went.


Rod Pemberton

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#1085 — Re: ObamaCare vs. Google

"Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> wrote:
>This is about ObamaCare's massive technology failure.

In a recent Federal by-election in Toronto:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/liberals-win-in-toronto-centre-byelection-1.2439673

Elections Canada's results were far behind the results provided by the 
Liberal Party scrutineers for the constituency. The scrutineers communicated 
with party headquarters iimediately and the results were compiled using 
smale-scale technology independent of the Federal cloud.

Throughout the evening even though the Liberals reported their candidate in 
the lead, Elections Canada reported another candidate in the lead. CBC news 
presented both sets of results.

The apparent inefficiecy of government systems evidently does not seem to be 
exclusive to one country alone, even in countries like mine where there is 
no need for the person who accesses health care to be involved in billing 
and reclaim:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada

Canadians strongly support the health system's public rather than for-profit 
private basis. In-kind delivery in Canada is superior to the American market 
approach in its efficiency of delivery. In the USA, 13.6 per cent of GNP is 
used on medical care. By contrast, in Canada, only 9.5 per cent of GNP is 
used on the medicare system, in part because there is no profit incentive 
for private insurers. The in-kind delivery system eliminates much of the 
advertising that is prominent in the USA, and the low overall administrative 
costs in the in-kind delivery system. Since there are no means tests and no 
bad-debt problems for doctors under the Canadian in-kind system, doctors 
billing and collection costs are reduced to almost zero.

In 2009, the Canadian government funded about 70% of Canadians' health care 
costs. This is slightly below the OECD average of public health spending.

http://www.oecd.org/

However technology systems (like adjudication systems,patient record 
systems, gun registry systems, MS-DOS and google) and healthcare policy are 
separate issues.

Bill 

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