I Really Have To Say This?

I don’t need to say that there is no correlation between the implementation of a health care law and the launching of a web site, right? I wasn’t going to go there, even though it’s been in the news for lo these many weeks, because it’s so completely assanine that I feel like I’m talking about Twilight or American Idol. (No, really, vampires aren’t real! Your votes really don’t matter!*) I have not read the ACA law, but I feel confident in saying there was no HTML or Javascript in there, so it stands to reason that the problems with Healthcare.gov are entirely unrelated to whatever problems are in the law. Saying the healthcare law is bad because the web site is broken is like saying speed limits are bad because your car broke down. Or … something like that.

Here’s the problem with Healthcare.gov: It’s a government web site! Come on. Who didn’t expect it to crash and burn on the first day? It would have been a miracle if it did work. IT resources in the federal government are a bit limited, in case you didn’t know. That’s probably a bit harsh. It’s just that government is supposed to be in the business of collecting and spending our tax dollars, not running gigantic enterprise web sites. When has the federal government ever launched a high profile web site for the entire nation to use on the same day? Never, I say. That is an extremely daunting task even for the pros.

Also, Anonymous is probably DOSing it to death. :o Just kidding. But someone probably is trying to.

• Heh, I don’t know that. The votes, I mean, not the vampires. But they’re probably fixed.

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