Megan McArdle, Columnist

Obamacare Fiasco Isn't a Single-Payer Conspiracy

I’m spending my morning listening to various contractors testify before Congress. Back in the day, when I worked for a tech consultancy, the technical term for what is going on in this hearing was “Not it!” 
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I'm spending my morning listening to various contractors testify before Congress. Back in the day, when I worked for a tech consultancy, the technical term for what is going on in this hearing was "Not it!"

Every consultant has sat in a meeting like this, where you painfully try to duck responsibility for unknown bugs and/or the client's bad decisions while not enraging the client by pointing out the various ways that various powerful people in the institution messed up the implementation. Having been in that position several times myself, it's hard not to feel empathy for the folks getting grilled. Hope you got those change orders in writing, guys.