What if Google Ran the ObamaCare Website?

In another post below I just outlined my views of what went wrong with the ObamaCare website.

This rumination got me thinking: What if Google had done the ObamaCare Website?

We are used the Google just working. Here is an example:

When you ask Google what the population of the United States was in 1776, it searches 7.5 million sites in 0.42 seconds and the first entry is a Google-owned site, and the second entry is my very own blog. Cool huh? How did I get into the second result in Google? But that’s another subject for another time.

The point is, Google works. If Obama, rather than spending $450 million with the Department of Health and Human Services, had called Google a couple of years ago and said: “Here is $150 million, why don’t you build us a healthcare exchange site?” Google would have taken the money, built a world-class site that would have been live in beta 3 months early for testing, and on October 1 it would have been ready for business.

There is no doubt in my mind – the mission would have been accomplished. Larry Page would have said: “Let there be a government healthcare exchange!” and there would have been one a year later.

What was Obama thinking?