Considering how doing things the proper way led to the Obamacare website kerfuffle in the first place Actually, that wasn't the case, whatever the competence o

Considering how doing things the proper way led to the Obamacare website kerfuffle in the first place Actually, that wasn't the case, whatever the competence of the contractors (and the lead company did a fantastic job on the Medicare Part D (prescription plan) subsite, which I have been using for a decade now), they were faced with a no win situational where major changes were being made right up to the week or half month before launch, requirements in general were delivered too late, CMS, which tried to play the general contractor role for which they didn't have the expertise, among other things required them to use a non-RDMS database with a paradigm they weren't even familiar with, I can go on and on and can dig up contemporaneous HN posts with more details. Bottom line/TL;DR, the higher quality "dream team" people retained to "unfuck the Obamacare website" would have inevitably failed if they'd been in the same position prior to its launch, it's only after it became a crisis that anyone had a chance to make it work.