Comment Re:Impossible circumstances (Score 1) 501
Hell, can you just imagine the nightmare it must have been to get all the insurance companies to provide all their data/plans in a standardized format so they could be integrated to the store front?
That's where being the Government has the advantage: you just mandate that the data be supplied in such-and-such a format, and fine companies for non-compliance. I've been on both sides of that equation, and (from an engineer's perspective) it actually works pretty well.
In the end, though not unexpectedly, they ran out of time and testing was shat upon
That, and it was designed and managed by committee. Worse, you had people on the committee who wanted it to fail.