Governor Kitzhaber & Oregon Heath Web Site

Here is some background. Governor Kitzhaber pushed for this legislation – and FULLY SUPPORTED – The Affordable Care Act – AFA aka ”Obamacare” – and then once it was passed ensured that Oregon Legislature – with both houses under the control of the Democrat Party – passed the legislation to enact Oregon’s Health Exchange and supporting semi-government agencies to implement it. The Governor had TOTAL control of who to appoint to implement the  website and the Oregon Heath Authority which was to run the whole thing. So you had, by HIS DESIGN, one organization to design the web site and a completely DIFFERENT organization to then use it and run the state health system – in addition to the other 12 to 15 state systems that already run heath related tasks.

BY HIS DESIGN.

He appoints the people to run it – they in turn appoint the people on down the line to do their tasks.

Remember: everything starts at the TOP.

Thus, the Governor appointed incompetent people to lead the agencies and to the boards, who in turn using their incomplete skillset working above their competence level thus set the framework to implement nothing more than a decision tree table lookup to find out who is eligible and what they qualify for – a classic help desk decision tree lookup system (true, it has to look-up and into to at least 56 different states and territories of the US plus at least 200 different heath systems since people move around (and you have to get their info into yours when they move) PLUS the Federal agencies – but once you did ONE right – then the rest are cookie cuttered with just the connections to the systems being different and their table names lengths are different – then  you use an ETL tool to translate their fields into your fields. Tedious but it has ALWAYS been done since the first computer tape/punch card system. It is NOT that hard.

Yet the State of Oregon managed to spend $250 MILLION PLUS only thing they got was some hardware and rented software with NOTHING working at all. THIS STARTED FROM THE TOP – THE GOVERNOR who appointed ALL these people and SET THE STANDARD THEY ARE TO WORK TO. And yet when asked he knew NOTHING about the problems. That is a direct reflection of the PEOPLE HE APPOINTED.

He has stated that the problems where unknown to him. YET HE IS THE ONE WHO IS TO MANGAGE THE STATE. Now that means he purposely appoints people who are appointed to jobs above their ability due to politics – they have now fallen into “The Peter Principle”  -  and are unwilling or incapable of telling the truth – especially the bad news -  to him or anyone else - since they are politically appointed after all and owe their job to him directly – and thus foster a set of policies / rules / operating culture where they are brainwashed into never telling things as they really are – which is human nature and not actually thought out – but by HIS appointments he picks people like that.

The same is true of the Department of Transportation “IT” program that was under-estimated by $30 MILLION dollars as to the cost – again the people HE appointed were unwilling to tell the real costs up front and thus once started the people of Oregon  have to be taxed even more to pay for the HIS mistakes by his appointments of people to jobs they are incapable of handing (again, through no fault of their own really, the GOVERNOR picks the people HE LIKES – and the Legislature just rubber stamps them since the Senate is owned by the Democrat party).

And now he wants to run for a 4^th term and he will then will APPOINT more people like he has in the past to run things in the State of Oregon?

At the FEDERAL level this too is true. The NATIONAL web site suffered the SAME problems – and President Obama make the required appointments to the people HE likes to run and implement the national web site and it had the same problems. Also HE stated he knew nothing of those problems. Are you finding a pattern here?

 

President Obama Supporting Iraq's Government - NOT!

An Interesting headline out of CNN for today, June 23, 2014 “Kerry assures Iraqis of U.S. support if they unite against militants” says a lot about President Obama’s support – that there is none.

 

The headline implies that if ALL fractions in Iraq must come to support the current ISIS Insurgent crisis, which of course will never happen since everything is divided along religious ground, then the President will support them. What is left unsaid is that since they will not unite, he will leave them in the “lurch” and claim that he offered and they refused his help.

 

This is like the “Standard Of Forces” agreement that he proposed in 2010 before we completely pulled out in 2011 – Iraq would not agree to what was proposed. Now I could not find any document stating exactly what we proposed to the government of Iraq back then, but it was likely, given President Obama’s desire never to support or be held accountable for anything that he already objects to, that we made outrageous demands on Iraq that they any nation would not agree to – or any internal faction – so he could do what he wanted to from the beginning – pull out all US Troops and let Iraq lapse into chaos.

 

The President is acting very much like PM Neville Chamberlain did in 1938 – only in reverse. Instead of giving away something he does not own without the country who owns the land being involved; President Obama is purposely ensuring that the existing country is destroyed by his inaction.

 

This President is thus reinforcing the idea that if you are an ally of the US – you are own you own. You have better guarantees being an ally of Russia than the US. At least when Russia say they support a country they actually act and support them within days (think Syria) – not do internal focus group surveys for political impacts,  and then wait months – or years - before deciding they need more time to think about it like this President does.

 

Goodbye to Iraq as we know it.