{"id":4222,"date":"2013-12-17T19:08:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T01:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2013-12-17T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T01:08:17","slug":"heads-should-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4222","title":{"rendered":"Heads Should Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s certainly good news that a former Microsoft executive will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/18\/us\/ex-microsoft-executive-to-take-over-health-site-repairs.html\">assume leadership of the ongoing repairs to healthcare.gov<\/a>. The website&#8217;s functionality has already improved significantly and an experienced tech manager is sure to push further enhancements. But I&#8217;m still frustrated that the White House didn&#8217;t hire someone in this capacity three years ago, thus avoiding a huge self-inflicted clusterfuck. As Ezra Klein observes, somebody really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/12\/13\/why-hasnt-anyone-been-fired-over-healthcare-gov\/\">needs to be fired<\/a> at some point to demonstrate that this administration holds people accountable. It can wait until the open enrollment period ends in March, but Obama can&#8217;t afford to stay his hand indefinitely. The public may have an unfairly dim view of government employees, but surely a few people at CMS have earned their contempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s certainly good news that a former Microsoft executive will assume leadership of the ongoing repairs to healthcare.gov. The website&#8217;s functionality has already improved significantly and an experienced tech manager is sure to push further enhancements. But I&#8217;m still frustrated that the White House didn&#8217;t hire someone in this capacity three years ago, thus avoiding <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4222' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-25-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-166","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}