> One specialist said that as many as five million lines of software code may need to be rewritten before the Web site runs properly.
Oh, so only 1%!
Tangentially, why are so few quotes in this article sourced? I see no reason why they shouldn't be. It's all throughout the article... They keep quoting "specialists."
You know, "war on whistle-blowers" and all.
"Stan Z. Soloway, president and CEO of the trade association that represents hundreds of government service companies" who parsed the contracts and independently confirmed that there's no prime integrator (i.e. the HHS CMMS is doing/failing that job, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6569042).
One or more big insurance company CEOs; they're the ones who have to deal with the gubble the backend is delivering to them.
Various mostly bloviating politicians like John McCain.
Even yesterday's HHS blog posting (http://www.hhs.gov/digitalstrategy/blog/2013/10/making-healt...) is unsigned.