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Consider this a bit of a mixed message. The Obama administration has insisted for the last two months that the problems with Healthcare.gov have largely been resolved, and that the web portal is now working within acceptable parameters. Now, however, they’re canning the company that delivered the mess and supposedly fixed it, for not fixing it:...
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In other words, it’s not fixed, and the people who brought us the big faceplant can’t handle the job at all. Instead, the administration will hire Accenture, a firm that has not done any work on a federal health-care system, to fix CGI Federal’s mess. And they will get paid $90 million to do so, which will boost the overall cost of the failing portal even more.
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First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the [no-bid] contract to build the failed Obamacare website.
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George Schindler, the president for U.S. and Canada of the Canadian-based CGI Group, CGI Federal’s parent company, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract.
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The story of how the Obama administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agencies tasked with implementing the Affordable Care Act got it so wrong is still unfolding. Much of the blame has to fall on an insular White House that didn’t want to hear about problems, and another chunk has to land on CMS, which instead of hiring a systems integrator, whose job it would have been to ensure that all the processes feeding into healthcare.gov worked together, kept that role for itself.
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Looks like they did another no bid contract. I wonder who the special friend in the Obama Administration is to the new company? I guess they're trying to spread the wealth (er tax dollars) to all their cronies.
Which is odd, we haven't heard much about it from the DUmmies. If Bush gave a plumber a no-bid contract he was surely helping out big oil and business in some way and there were 26 threads about it at DU.
The Obama administration will replace CGI Federal, its main IT contractor for the glitch-prone HealthCare.gov.
"CGI and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have mutually agreed to complete work on CGI's contract for the Federally-Facilitated Marketplace (FFM), in line with the previously-scheduled February 2014 contract end date," Linda F. Odorisio, CGI's vice president of global communications, said in a statement Friday to CNBC.
Earlier Friday, The Washington Post reported that contractor that built the federal Obamacare health exchange had gotten the boot from the White House in favor of consulting firm Accenture.
Citing a person familiar with the matter, the Post reported that federal health officials are preparing to sign a year-long contract with Accenture worth about $90 million. The company built California's exchange. The Post said Accenture officials declined to comment.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101326991
What happens to the millions already spent on a faulty system?Oh, don't worry. The bundlers and donors to owebuma got the lion's share.
Hmm...
What happens to the millions already spent on a faulty system?
Hmm...
You mean 100's of million? Over half a billion!
That money should be recouped, it's our ****ing money!!!!
Btw, I'm leaving this site, since I'm called all sorts of names.
My sis donated to you guys last year. Lol. What a joke..
See ya.
That money should be recouped, it's our ****ing money!!!!
Btw, I'm leaving this site, since I'm called all sorts of names.
My sis donated to you guys last year. Lol. What a joke..
See ya.