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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kelly Anderson<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] readers digest version of hayek<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:47 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>You flatter me sir. He has the TV show. All I have is you guys.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Yes, but you really "have" us. At least me<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In a TOTALLY Platonic sense, with ABSOLUTELY NO expressed or implied anything by the quotes around “have” you understand, none at all, no, nothing like that one bit, no way Jose.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>The thing that is horrible about her is that she's a bureaucrat. They are all evil. Banally evil<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What they need to do is take someone already known to be non-evil, smart, sweet, good hearted, kind and beautiful. The face doesn’t even need to know how to run stuff; rather they would serve as the face of evil bureaucracy, a bit like the brown-eyed splash page girl. I have seen exactly this in a big company; get someone who knows little but is personable, attractive, dresses nicely, impeccable manners, to be the boss, then have some really smart guy in the background, some nearly invisible person, perhaps a short bald shabby guy who knows what is going on and is smart as a whip, to do the actual work while the front person represents the effort. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For head of Health and Human Services I would recommend the stunning Kari Byron. Anything she is selling, I am buying. She is all the above, and no matter what, I am confident even the bureaucrattest of governments could never make that young lady evil. Femininity just doesn’t get any better than this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Well, if I don't criticize you when I think you're wrong, I'll lose what little credibility I might have... LOL<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja, well I don’t have cable TV and don’t watch Hannity. So I claim to have derived the poor argument independently.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>{8^D<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I must repeat and reinforce a previous comment: knowing what was at stake here, I am astonished HHS would not have discovered in time the coming catastrophe and stopped the rollout</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>…</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Reminds me of this TED talk...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://bit.ly/17pECJs">http://bit.ly/17pECJs</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Excellent! {8^D<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Big software projects are complex enough in the private sector. Add the complexities of government oversight, and you have a formula for failure. It has happened MANY times. It happens a lot in private industry too. Occam's razor tells me the simplest answer is that software is a bitch and big software is more of a bitch<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>-Kelly<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kelly me lad, note please: this whole thing *<b>did not need to be</b>* big software. There was exactly no need for it! That’s the point of my argument really. It could have been as simple as just a publicly accessible spreadsheet with fifty tabs along the bottom, one for each state, so each tab would refer to residents of only that state. Across the top they could have identified the columns as benefits from each plan. The rows could have been filled in by all the companies competing in that state. One of the lines could have been the public option, offered by O-care. Most of the squares could have been simple checkmarks, with green tab notes if you wanted them. The companies could fill in what benefits they would cover, so the companies would have filled in their squares on their spreadsheets, and do let me assure you, they would have done it right. This didn’t need to be complicated. Simple not only would do, it would do better and do right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Columns could be added for estimated government subsidies by age group, income level etc. They wouldn’t need to know anything about who is asking, no security, nothing. They would provide the means for us to plan what-ifs, which is really what spreadsheets do best, let us do what we need to do, without asking questions that are perfectly irrelevant to the current situation, such as the earnings on your most recent W2. If you give them your current salary, when you are being moved from 40 hours a week to 30 so your company does not need to buy your health insurance, the amount on your current W2 is irrelevant and something you may not wish to share with the whole world in any case. It doesn’t help if you anticipate your salary is going down very soon, as plenty of the applicants know is coming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So they could put up that spreadsheet, which could be derived mostly by the insurance companies (the only ones who really do know what is in the ACA, and knew it even BEFORE it was passed) with about a dozen government bureaucrats including the stunning Kari Byron in less than a week for considerably less than 600 million dollars. Failure to do it that way demonstrates bad judgment, stunning incompetence and even more than a hint of Simon bar Sinister-esque control-freakish power-drunken evil.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So my criticism of Ms. Sebelius has nothing to do with her being evil or anything about the ignominious failure of the website and its subsequent shameless rollout for all to see, in all its refulgent wretchedness. My criticism is that they even felt it needed to be a big software project to begin with, when it really only required a small simple software project. All they needed was just a big but simple spreadsheet, no more complex than some I have created myself in my own misspent youth, and continue to create in my misspent late youth. That they struggled to find the very most expensive and complicated way to do a simple project, then flubbed it spectacularly makes HealthCare.gov a perfect textbook example of why we don’t want to hand over healthcare to the federal government. Get government OUT of the healing business, don’t put more of it in there! SHEESH for evolution SAKES! What, if anything, were they thinking?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A slightly more sinister version of this is that it is perfectly clear that HealthCare.gov is a nakedly transparent attempt at inappropriate data harvesting by a government which has recently been caught doing that illegitimately, but in the negative sense of the otherwise delightful word nakedly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>