psy·cho·sis
noun, plural psy·cho·ses Psychiatry. 1. a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality.These two people displayed a severely impaired contact with reality today.
Patient Sibelius:
Classic case of psychosis. Patient presents with loss of contact with reality, punctuated with outbursts of patently false statements.
Sibelius said:
'No one indicated it could possibly go this wrong'Ah but they did.
Washington (CNN) – The Obama administration was given stark warnings just one month before that the federal healthcare site was not ready to go live, according to a confidential report obtained by CNN.The caution, from the main contractor CGI, warned of a number of open risks and issues for the HealthCare.gov web site even as company executives were testifying publicly that the project had achieved key milestones.Patient Sibelius made the statement
On Capitol Hill on Monday, Medicaid Chief Marilyn Tavenner, whose job it was to oversee the October 1 rollout of the website, said she did not foresee its problems.
“No, we had tested the website and we were comfortable with its performance,” she said. “Now, like I said, we knew all along there would be as with any new website, some individual glitches we would have to work out. But, the volume issue and the creation of account issues was not anticipated and obviously took us by surprise. And did not show up in testing.”
“The website has never crashed – it is functional but at a very low speed and very low reliability and has continued to function.”Ironically, as the patient testified...
And it was not the first time.
Patient Obama:
Another classic presentation, including mental confusion, hallucinations, verbal flailing about with a desperate need to deflect responsibility. Learning that he had earned with Four Pinocchio's by the Washington Post caused the patient to experience a psychotic break and begin to utter statements that had no basis in reality. The patient uttered something about "bad apples" causing people to lose their health care plans.
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