More on the Healthcare.org fiasco

The NY Times has more information on what went wrong. Fundamentally, it was an attempt to manage a very sophisticated software project by people who knew very little about these types of projects. The specs were in flux almost constantly.  There was no manager of the overall project. A relatively new database system was chosen. Yet, on September 26, four days before launch, Obama said, “This is real simple. It’s a website where you can compare and purchase affordable health insurance plans side by side the same way you shop for a plane ticket on Kayak, same way you shop for a TV on Amazon. You just go on, and you start looking, and here are all the options.”