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October 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM #20790October 3, 2013 at 10:46 AM #766124
spdrun
ParticipantProbably a clueless PR-drone type — conflated 5 million total hits to pages with 645,000 discrete visitors.
October 3, 2013 at 10:52 AM #766126no_such_reality
ParticipantActually, it’s not visitors, my bad. 645,000 hits 514,000 visitors.
I’m a clueless PR hack. 🙂
October 3, 2013 at 11:51 PM #766186bearishgurl
ParticipantI visited CoveredCA today, and applied for coverage. I won’t be selecting a plan until they make available the actual names of providers in each plan they offer come Monday, 10/7. Just to double check that my current providers will be accepting the plan I choose.
I’m leaning towards the Blue Shield of CA Ultimate (Platinum) PPO for a variety of reasons, most notably that all my providers will accept it and they have a vast network of providers, some of which are located in the rural and semi-rural areas of the US which I regularly visit. And my visit to these providers does NOT have to be considered an “emergency” in order to be covered.
https://www.blueshieldca.com/bsca/find-a-plan/health-plans/individual-family/metal-level-plans.sp
October 4, 2013 at 9:24 AM #766202jeff303
ParticipantWhy are we to assume “intentional misinformation” is more likely than the stated reason (communication error)?
October 4, 2013 at 6:48 PM #766293ucodegen
Participant[quote=jeff303]Why are we to assume “intentional misinformation” is more likely than the stated reason (communication error)?[/quote] Because web server metric systems give an accurate account. It would be the number of unique cookies. It is very hard to ‘miscommunicate’ a number that a computer prints out. There has also been a lot of money spent to make tracking of web visits accurate. For many other sites, it is important financially. A ‘computer glitch’ is very unlikely in terms of tracking.
Why does intentional misinformation seem to be the norm.
The mind-think that the ends justify the means.
October 7, 2013 at 1:19 PM #766468ParticipantI work in the software industry (used to be in the financial domain, now education). Just because the computer prints out an accurate number doesn’t mean it’s transcribed accurately through all the layers of people in between it and the news story. Ever played the game of telephone? From my limited experience, Hanlon’s Razor tends to hold true.
October 7, 2013 at 3:48 PM #766481Participant[quote=jeff303]I work in the software industry (used to be in the financial domain, now education). Just because the computer prints out an accurate number doesn’t mean it’s transcribed accurately through all the layers of people in between it and the news story. Ever played the game of telephone? From my limited experience, Hanlon’s Razor tends to hold true.[/quote]
I work in software too, lying to make it look good is pretty rampant.
As is playing lose with facts. AKA, when asked how it’s going, you give them the ‘hit’ count.
October 22, 2013 at 7:54 AM #767140blake
Participant[quote]
Health insurance exchange launched despite signs of serious problems…
When the Web site went live Oct. 1, it locked up shortly after midnight as about 2,000 users attempted to complete the first step, according to two people familiar with the project.
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[/quote]Spend $400 mil and still can’t handle 2000 users …
October 22, 2013 at 8:37 AM #767141ParticipantYep, some of the articles that came out today make it clear that there was a massive failure in system architecture and/or testing.
October 22, 2013 at 9:13 AM #767144an
ParticipantThe developers saw the writing on the wall months earlier. There were no testing done by the developer or testers, but by the government. They were crammed into conference room with pizza and energy drink working past 10PM on a daily basis. Yep, that’s a recipe for a great product w/ little to no bugs.
To all the talking heads, 20 million visits is not 20 million unique user. For a system that supposed to be as big as ACA supposed to be, it supposed to be able to handle Pinterest level traffic with ease.
October 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM #767145all
ParticipantInstead of asking Jeff Bezos to buy Washington Post few months ago Obama should have asked him to take over this job.
October 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM #767146ParticipantiPads for L.A. Unified could now cost $770 each, a 14% increase
[quote]The L.A. Unified School District will have to purchase nearly 520,000 iPads in order to avoid spending nearly $100 more apiece for the tablets, a new school district budget shows.The newly disclosed price of $770, a 14% increase per iPad, appeared in a revised budget released in advance of a public meeting Tuesday on the $1-billion project. The potential sticker shock can be avoided, but only after the district has spent at least $400 million for the devices.
Officials did not answer questions Monday about how much the district would then spend on the remaining tablets.
The earlier cost estimate for each iPad “preceded the actual procurement process,” the district said Monday in response to questions from The Times. “The negotiated discount [to $678] does not go into effect until the district has reached the $400-million spending threshold.”[/quote]
Just another tiny detail.
October 22, 2013 at 8:52 PM #767176Participant[quote=no_such_reality]iPads for L.A. Unified could now cost $770 each, a 14% increase
[quote]The L.A. Unified School District will have to purchase nearly 520,000 iPads in order to avoid spending nearly $100 more apiece for the tablets, a new school district budget shows.The newly disclosed price of $770, a 14% increase per iPad, appeared in a revised budget released in advance of a public meeting Tuesday on the $1-billion project. The potential sticker shock can be avoided, but only after the district has spent at least $400 million for the devices.
Officials did not answer questions Monday about how much the district would then spend on the remaining tablets.
The earlier cost estimate for each iPad “preceded the actual procurement process,” the district said Monday in response to questions from The Times. “The negotiated discount [to $678] does not go into effect until the district has reached the $400-million spending threshold.”[/quote]
Just another tiny detail.[/quote]
LOL. It’s much easier to waste other people’s money than your own. I wouldn’t think twice about over paying for something if I’m using someone else’s money.October 22, 2013 at 10:50 PM #767186ParticipantJust saw this:
I alluded to this problem (off topic) in a recent thread.
http://piggington.com/food_stamp_riots#comment-235175
The above link’s video confirms my suspicions.
It’s not necessarily going to be the 55-64 year-old crowd that will be the most costly for state exchange insurers. Try the 20-54 year-old crowd, the Gen Y portion of whom the exchanges are courting to sign up to avoid that dreaded “downward spiral” because they are banking on this group being “young and healthy” :=0
Prime causes of Gen Y being young but NOT healthy … that is, exhibiting heart disease, stroke and other ailments before their time?
*33% obesity rate
*Lack of exercise
*SmokingIs anyone surprised??
Us boomers didn’t have 14 kinds of hot Cheetos and Taquis to choose from when we were growing up, and, in any case, we had to eat standard cafeteria fare in schools. That is, a meat or fish, a starch, a vegetable or salad and dessert. All were SMALL portions that fit into indentations on a square plastic tray which we bussed ourselves. It came with WHITE milk … NOT chocolate milk.
Cost per day was .25 in elementary school, .35 in Jr High and .50 in Sr High. If five paper lunch tix were purchased at a time, a different color ticket was issued to “free-lunch kids” who had to stand in a separate line to get their food.
No carbonated beverages were available in machines at any public school (against the law).
PE was a REQUIRED class for Grades 1-12 (all 3 years of Sr. High PE required to graduate). It included rope climbing to a 14 ft ceiling, obstacle courses, track and field and individual and team sports. If the weather was too cold, class was held in the the gym. For grades 7-12, a student had to dress out for PE, participate in the activity and shower afterwards. No excuses.
Of course, we didn’t have any cell phones, computers or other gadgets to spend time sitting around playing with, either.
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Fast forward to today’s CA public school curriculum where PE is an elective and Carl’s Jr, Taco Bell, Chipotle, Starbucks and a yogurt bar are all <3 mins walk away (seniors have open-campus privileges).
A typical grade 1-12 public school lunch is now Dominos Pizza and chocolate milk.
Thus, Gen Y has the health problems we're seeing today and into the near future.
Among those signing up on state exchanges, I think a portion of Gen Y might be better served to sign up for a more "comprehensive plan" than the "catastrophic plans" that are being pushed on them or they are going to find themselves asked to pay out-of-pocket for a LOT of procedures .... with money they likely don't have.
Case in point: Cost of echocardiogram procedure in various markets:
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