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cali (82,500 posts) British Company Is Awarded Contract to Administer Health Rollout Racing to meet an October deadline, Obama administration officials said Thursday that they had awarded a contract worth as much as $1.2 billion to a British company to help them sift applications for health insurance and tax credits under the new health care law. The company, Serco, has extensive experience as a government contractor with the Defense Department and intelligence agencies, and it also manages air traffic control towers in 11 states and reviews visa applications for the State Department. But it has little experience with the Department of Health and Human Services or the insurance marketplaces, known as exchanges, where individuals and small businesses are supposed to be able to shop for insurance. Serco will help the Obama administration and states determine who is eligible for insurance subsidies, in the form of tax credits, and who might qualify for Medicaid. Tasks include “intake, routing, review and troubleshooting of applications,†according to the contract. <snip, snip, lots of snipping> Even as the Defense Department and other agencies face across-the-board budget cuts, the health law has been a boon to contractors. It would be virtually impossible for the administration to carry out the law without contractors to run a call center, a “data services hub†and a public-relations campaign. The Government Accountability Office found that the administration had spent $394 million on contracts to establish federal insurance exchanges. More than three-fourths of the money went to 10 companies. They include CGI Federal, a subsidiary of a Canadian company, the CGI Group ($88 million); Quality Software Services Inc. ($55 million); and Booz Allen Hamilton ($38 million). http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/health/british-company-is-awarded-contract-to-administer-health-rollout.html?
cali (82,500 posts) 1. a little about the Serco Group <snip> Controversies Serco has seen a large amount of criticism involving its private prisons and detention centres. In particular, the Union of Christmas Island Workers has said about the Christmas Island detention centre, which hosts many refugees as well as 1,000 children who have tried to immigrate into Australia, "Serco's failure to perform is huge." Serco has been accused of beating prisoners, not adequately maintaining their physical and mental health, and allowing suicide and self-harm incidents to increase over time. Australian ombudsman Allan Asher said to the Australian radio show AM, "In the first week of June when I visited Christmas Island, more than 30 incidents of self harm by detainees held there were reported." Serco, in a company memo leaked to The Australian, blamed the detainees for "creating a culture of self harm," and using it as a "bargaining tool." Serco has been fined for breaches of contract every month it has managed detention centres in Australia, leading to a total of $4 million in fines in early 2011. Also, Serco's Christmas Island detention center was reported by its own former manager to be "typically 15 staff members short every day." Serco has also gained criticism for its inefficiency in its pathology labs. Its laboratories in St Thomas' Hospital saw an increase in the number of clinical incidents, such as patients getting inappropriate blood when their medical history was not flagged by the system or patients' kidney damage results being calculated incorrectly. A Serco employee later revealed that the company had given false reports to the National Health Service 252 times over its medical services in Cornwall. <snip> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serco_Group
HiPointDem (18,875 posts) 2. Serco! The everything company, formerly RCA UK! They also do charter schools! Last edited Fri Jul 5, 2013, 06:24 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)And everything in-between! Like prisons, transportation, air traffic control, and it just goes on & on!! All based on those juicy government dollars! UK company from US parent run by a South AfricaN! This is the future of the global mega-corporation! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serco_Group
Why they sound so bad that we might as well let the government run it.
UK company from US parent run by a South AfricaN!
You got something against Africans, DUmmie?
Obama has already decreed Africans are not allowed to have cars, refrigerators or AC lest they kill the planet.He is half-white after all so he gets to march into Africa and tell those backwards savages what's-what.
White is the dominate race......hey, it must be because his white half is keeping his black half down.
Well JohnnyReb... since Zimmerman is a "White Hispanic" what does that make obumbles?
^Don't forget, if expertise in blackness is required, look no further. I am a zombie for owebuma, and black in protest of the current administration.
Ah, but therein lies the delicious irony:ObamaCoup is so huge -- such a towering example of government grown so big -- that it can only be managed by privatized outsourcing, the very amalgamation of government and corporation the Proglodytes say is the hallmark of fascism.
How could I forget?And a male lesbian, too.
Really? There's more of us?
When do we male lesbians get special rights?.......and what will they be?
