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It’s been one full week since the flagship technology portion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) went live. And since that time, the befuddled beast that is Healthcare.gov has shutdown, crapped out, stalled, and mis-loaded so consistently that its track record for failure is challenged only by Congress.
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The reason for this nationwide headache apparently stems from poorly written code, which buckled under the heavy influx of traffic that its engineers and administrators should have seen coming.
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But based on the figures and details available, here is my best estimate of what this flawed system has cost us: The most clear data comes from a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report from June (pdf), which states that the U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) spent “almost $394 million from fiscal year 2010 through March 2013 through contracts” to build the “federally facilitated exchanges” (FFEs)
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a more detailed look at that cost shows that a portion that $394 million was spent on things like call centers and collection services. Take that out, and you’re left with roughly $363 million spent on technology-related costs to the healthcare exchanges – the bulk of which ($88 million) went to CGI Federal, the company awarded a $93.7 million contract to build Healthcare.gov and other technology portions of the FFEs.
Currently it is estimated that around $500 million has been spent so far.
In comparison - it says Facebook took about 6 years to spend over $500 million.
They had three years to develop the system and so far it's a failure. With all of the technology and programmers we have in this country - this is what the government comes up with. Ridiculous. But in the end - it's slowing down the advancement of this monstrosity, which is good.
A lesson on government procurement for services...
As one of the company’s authors wrote in a recent blog post, the failure of Healthcare.gov isn’t because the people in our government are inept mouth-breathers who regard the work as a meaningless burden, but because the factors that play into which companies receive government contracts, a process called “procurement,” are fundamentally broken.
“Contracting officers – people inside of the government in charge of selecting who gets to do what work – are afraid of their buys being contested by people who didn’t get selected,” writes the author. “They’re also afraid of things going wrong down the line inside of a procurement, so they select vendors with a lot of ‘federal experience’ to do the work.”
And when things still go wrong, they simply throw “more money at the same people who caused the problem to fix the problem.”
LOL, my brother recently retired from the Corps of Engineers, after a long career there. He spent much of his last few years trying to teach them how to manage a $50,000 project, so they could learn, then, how to manage a $50,000,000 project.
I haven't asked him, because I hate to get him wound up, but I'm guessing that the task proved far too herculean for a mere mortal.
But yet not one person said anything when Haliburton was pimping the government out of billions in faulty equipment that cause the lives and injuries to hundreds of our military members not too long ago.
But yet not one person said anything when Haliburton was pimping the government out of billions in faulty equipment that cause the lives and injuries to hundreds of our military members not too long ago.
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Originally Posted by urbanlife78
It is like reading posts from angry gamers whenever a new online game comes out.
It's understandable that you 2 cannot answer without changing the subject...
Typical leftist tactic...change the subject when you cannot answer....
It's understandable that you 2 cannot answer without changing the subject...
Typical leftist tactic...change the subject when you cannot answer....
I wasn't bothering to answer because no one here cares what the answer is. You are welcome to skip over my comment if you want.
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