As you may have gathered from my posting schedule this morning, I have a little down time. The contract I was working on downtown has officially ended. I still don’t feel at liberty to tell you the details of what I was doing but suffice it to say that I now have an insider’s view of Illinois’s activities in implementing the PPACA. I’ve been of considerable help to my client and it’s honestly too bad they didn’t bring me in a year ago.
My experience for the last three months also fully supports a claim I’ve made from time to time that, if they’d called me in to manage the project, Healthcare.gov would’ve worked fine straight out of the box.
I do feel at liberty to share with you one insight I’ve gained. There is apparently a known way to build a state healthcare insurance exchange website that flops: do it yourself. That’s what Oregon did. All of the states’ healthcare insurance exchanges that worked the best were apparently built by the technical wing of the same accounting company.
One more thing: a plurality of the states’ exchanges were built using WordPress, the engine that powers this blog.
As you may have gathered from my posting schedule this morning, I have a little down time.
In fact, I just realized that after my last comment and was about to ask.
The alternate explanation was that they had extended you contract beyond the time you mentioned a few weeks back, but that everyone is taking the week off.
Me? I’m waiting for everyone to get their showers in, and then we’ll pow-wow about what, if anything, we’ll do today. (My wife’s mother & sister are in town.) There is a high probability that today, as for the last few days, we will all stay home and nap. The holiday is proving highly enjoyable!
They actually did extend my contract by about six weeks. I was just so darned effective and handy to have around. They actually need me but can’t afford me full time. I’m trying to cut a deal for a day a week or something. I’m pretty sure that if I don’t stay on top of things they’ll return to bad old habits.
You’re in full cranky old man mode now, LOL!