{"id":22895,"date":"2013-11-09T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22895"},"modified":"2013-11-09T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:43:59","slug":"barack-obama-on-the-difference-between-private-enterprise-and-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/11\/09\/barack-obama-on-the-difference-between-private-enterprise-and-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama on the difference between private enterprise and government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.ca\/2013\/11\/obama-admits-government-is-far-less.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Althouse<\/a> finds it amazing that President Obama clearly understands why his campaign website was so effective and why the Obamacare website fails on so many levels, but can&#8217;t generalize that knowledge to the whole public\/private sphere:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/nbc-news\/53492840\/#53492840\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s interview with Chuck Todd<\/a>, Obama said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>You know, one of the lessons &mdash; learned from this whole process on the website &mdash; is that probably the biggest gap between the private sector and the federal government is when it comes to I.T. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Well, the reason is is that when it comes to my campaign, I&#8217;m not constrained by a bunch of federal procurement rules, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is, many have pointed out that his campaign website was really good, so why didn&#8217;t that mean that he&#8217;d be good at setting up a health insurance website? The answer is that the government is bad because the government is hampered by&#8230; <em>government!<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>And how we write &mdash; specifications and &mdash; and how the &mdash; the whole things gets built out. So part of what I&#8217;m gonna be looking at is how do we across the board, across the federal government, leap into the 21st century.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love the combination of: 1. Barely able to articulate what the hell happens inside these computer systems, and 2. Wanting to <em>leap!<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Because when it comes to medical records for veterans, it&#8217;s still done in paper. Medicaid is still largely done on paper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When we buy I.T. services generally, it is so bureaucratic and so cumbersome that a whole bunch of it doesn&#8217;t work or it ends up being way over cost. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This <em>should<\/em> have made him sympathetic to the way government burdens private enterprise, but he&#8217;s focused on liberating government to take over more of what has been done privately. And yet there&#8217;s no plan, no idea about what would suddenly enable government to displace private businesses competing to offer a product people want to buy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Althouse finds it amazing that President Obama clearly understands why his campaign website was so effective and why the Obamacare website fails on so many levels, but can&#8217;t generalize that knowledge to the whole public\/private sphere: In yesterday&#8217;s interview with Chuck Todd, Obama said: You know, one of the lessons &mdash; learned from this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,831,84,15,13],"tags":[158,121,58,937],"class_list":["post-22895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-government","category-technology","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-insurance","tag-internet","tag-obamacare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Xh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22896,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895\/revisions\/22896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}