How federal cronies built -- and botched -- Healthcare.gov

Tech news site Digital Trends reveals that CGI Federal received $634,320,919 in taxpayer money to construct Healthcare.gov, which amounts to more than was spent creating Linkedin ($200 million) and Spotify ($288 million) combined. It also amounts to more than was initially required to create Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Fox News also reported last week that senior White House officials probably knew that the site was not ready when it was launched.

Robert Laszewski, a consultant with clients in the healthcare industry participating in the new exchange, said insurance companies were complaining “loudly” that the site had experienced problems before the launch. “People were pulling out their hair,” he told The Washington Post Wednesday.

The New York Times reports that Henry Chao, described as “the chief digital architect for the Obama administration’s new online insurance marketplace,” was “deeply worried about the web site’s debut” way back in March. Chao commented that he hoped Obamacare would not amount to “a third-world experience.”

Some might say that this is an insult to third world web developers.

The Times also quotes an insurance executive who has participated in many conference calls on the federal exchange. “These are not glitches,” the executive stated, “The extent of the problems is pretty enormous. At the end of our calls, people say, ‘It’s awful, just awful.’”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/obamaca...-cannot-sign-up-a-fortnight-after-launch.html

Obviously this was all due to some vast right wing conspiracy to make sure the computer code was corrupted beyond repair to embarrass Obama.

Once again the alternative media (Mike Adams Natural News) broke the story of the "funky full of junkie" corrupt computer code and the MSM is being forced to play catch up again.

 

This is good stuff, Ponch. Thanks. :thumbsup:

 

This is what Forbes is saying.

Obamacare's Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn't Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are

‘It’s awful, just awful’

Robert Pear and colleagues at the New York Times have a piece up today detailing the serious problems with the federal exchange, problems that may get worse, not better. They confirm what we already knew: that the Obama administration refused to delay the implementation of the exchanges, despite the well-known problems, because they were afraid of the political blowback. “Former government officials say the White House, which was calling the shots, feared that any backtracking would further embolden Republican critics who were trying to repeal the health care law.”

As I documented last week, IT and insurance experts have been saying for at least eight months that implementation of the exchanges was going badly, that as early as February officials were warning of a “third world experience.” The Times’ sources are just as blunt. “These are not glitches,” said one insurance executive. “The extent of the problems is pretty enormous. At the end of our [conference calls with the administration], people say, ‘It’s awful, just awful.’”

“We foresee a train wreck,” said another executive in a February interview with the Times. “We don’t have the IT specifications. The level of angst in health plans is growing by leaps and bounds. The political people in the administration do not understand how far behind they are.” Richard Foster, the former chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said last week that “so much testing of the new system was so far behind schedule, I was not confident it would work well.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapot...now-health-plans-true-costs/?partner=yahootix