Healthcare.gov: Armchair Analysis

Healthcare.gov may need to be redesigned to just collect and store the application data, then say, "Thank you very much, you'll get an email within 48hrs with a link to your options."

The data would go into a queue database that other, back-end software would process sequentially and produce a results dataset with whatever is needed to present a list of plans and prices for that applicant. The applicant logs back in in a couple of days to start comparing plans.

Reagan Started It All

JJR wrote on Facebook Oct 1, 2013
re: today's government shutdown...

"One of the ways you can acquire a prion disease is to eat right out of its skull the brains of an infected monkey. We are now seeing the country reeling and jabbering from the effects of the prion disease, but it was during the time of Reagan that the country ate the monkey brains. . ."

I was so naive back then. Here I thought no elected official could be more Hitler-like than Reagan. Then I was sure Newt had him beat. Then it had to be "W."

Who knew they were wusses compared to Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, ... (I'm tired of typing)?

You're absolutely right, Reagan set it all in motion.