obamacare website cost how much?
Gross: U.S. Taxpayers Shelled Out $634,320,919 To Build Obamacare Website
Via Digital Journal: 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. posted from my couch! |
Holy fuck....
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I'm not sure their accounting is particularly accurate considering large portions of the contracts they are counting were only awarded in the last few months. Often IT purchases by the government will include delivering the product, in this case the website, then years of support and services around updating and maintaining the product. It may also include in this case the hardware required to run the website along with maintenance and support for that.
Regardless, even if the real number is an order of magnitude (or two) less the government still managed to massively overpay for an inferior product. Isn't that pretty much expected at this point? Maybe the shutdown isn't such a bad thing. The government has to slow the pace of their fuckups for a few weeks, it'll likely save taxpayers a few billion by accident. It just sucks that the government seems to select the wrong shit to shut down, again to be expected. |
Is it me, or did they take all the government contracts awarded to CGI Group Inc. and try to claim its only for the website.
Isn't that kind of ...dishonest? What kind of website would try and outright deceive its readers like that? That makes me sad. I thought the website cost 90 million? In other news, an HP contractor came to give me a new laptop not to long ago. Looking at how much we paid HP for their services...it cost my company 1 billion dollars to have HP provide me with a laptop. |
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From what I've read, that company has been the go to for a lot of government projects. Website was one of them. A 3 year government project of this scale\scope (regulations\state to state crap\requirements creep coming all over) the cost isn't that surprising. My company has spend more on less. Time|Quality|Budget You can pick 2 The code quality issue....all I have to say is I'd like to see who the company contracted out to for the analysis\coding work. Lot of those firms are cheap for a reason. Screenshots and mockups look great...everything is copy pasta junk layered upon copy pasta junk. I bet it worked great in demos and the testers really liked the fonts |
How is this even remotely surprising to anyone?
They have to pay for NSA tracking SOMEHOW. It's only obvious to anyone who's ever coded that the number is inflated by 1000% |
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...t-634-million/
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I been laughing hysterically about my younger liberal friends on facebook that have very little healthcare coverage whining about losing their plans and having to buy much more expensive ones they don't need because of the healthcare plan requirements. One person is going from 175 a month to over 700.
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