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. But the fact that Healthcare.gov can’t do the one job it was built to do isn’t the most infuriating part of this debacle – it’s that we, the taxpayers, seem to have forked up more than $634 million of the federal purse to build the digital equivalent of a rock.
The exact cost to build Healthcare.gov, according to U.S. government records, appears to have been $634,320,919, which we paid to a company you probably never heard of: CGI Federal. The company originally won the contract back in 2011, but at that time, the cost was expected to run “up to” $93.7 million – still a chunk of change, but nothing near where it ended up.
Gross: U.S. Taxpayers Shelled Out $634,320,919 To Build Obamacare Website… | Weasel Zippers
Over 600 million dollars and 3 years and it doesn't even ****ing work. How lovely. Gee leftists lets just waste some more money, we can just print up more and it wont even matter.
Sad part of the story is that it's superfluous. Every major health insurance carrier clearly shows premium amounts -- and whether one is entitled to a subsidy. This could have more easily be handled by . . . wait for it . . . private enterprise.
Gross: U.S. Taxpayers Shelled Out $634,320,919 To Build Obamacare Website… | Weasel Zippers
Over 600 million dollars and 3 years and it doesn't even ****ing work. How lovely. Gee leftists lets just waste some more money, we can just print up more and it wont even matter.
Yeah, well, don't heap too much praise on private enterprise.
My son, an admittedly anecdotal source, has been doing whatever the heck a programmer does since he finished his military service and got his degree. So, about 20 years experience.
After 15 years at Yucca Mtn., he lost his job to Harry Reid's insane fear mongering. He then went to work for Nevada Energy, a power company who has multiple state enterprises. They have invested as much or more in a program to track their real estate holdings. Years of work, hundreds of millions and the thing simply didn't work. My son invested 2 yers full time cleaning up this tangled mess and as a reward, his job was outsourced. Of course, they quickly discovered that his team of Indian replacements (who they forced him to train to get his severance) that they were just as lost and making things worse. So, they quickly called him and offered him his job back (after Warren Buffet bought the company).
I am proud to say he told them where to shove their job and is now lead programmer at our University. So, when more than one or two people work on projects over a long time period, you usually end up with a dysfunctional mess. Now, add to that the normal utter incompetence of government....well, I suppose its always possible to make things even worse. But the theory that this should have worked out of the box was a bit optimistic. If it had been given to the much vaunted "private enterprise" it likely would have provided good jobs for East Indians and wouldn't be any more functional than it is now.
Certainly private industry can be very good at things like making money. Just cut wages, hire your friends as "managers" and outsource your work. Why before you know it your stock will be up 50% (using nearly free loans to bankers) and you can give yourself a 50 million dollar bonus for saving all that money by screwing your American employees.
Yeah, well, don't heap too much praise on private enterprise.
My son, an admittedly anecdotal source, has been doing whatever the heck a programmer does since he finished his military service and got his degree. So, about 20 years experience.
After 15 years at Yucca Mtn., he lost his job to Harry Reid's insane fear mongering. He then went to work for Nevada Energy, a power company who has multiple state enterprises. They have invested as much or more in a program to track their real estate holdings. Years of work, hundreds of millions and the thing simply didn't work. My son invested 2 yers full time cleaning up this tangled mess and as a reward, his job was outsourced. Of course, they quickly discovered that his team of Indian replacements (who they forced him to train to get his severance) that they were just as lost and making things worse. So, they quickly called him and offered him his job back (after Warren Buffet bought the company).
I am proud to say he told them where to shove their job and is now lead programmer at our University. So, when more than one or two people work on projects over a long time period, you usually end up with a dysfunctional mess. Now, add to that the normal utter incompetence of government....well, I suppose its always possible to make things even worse. But the theory that this should have worked out of the box was a bit optimistic. If it had been given to the much vaunted "private enterprise" it likely would have provided good jobs for East Indians and wouldn't be any more functional than it is now.
Certainly private industry can be very good at things like making money. Just cut wages, hire your friends as "managers" and outsource your work. Why before you know it your stock will be up 50% (using nearly free loans to bankers) and you can give yourself a 50 million dollar bonus for saving all that money by screwing your American employees.
Sad part of the story is that it's superfluous. Every major health insurance carrier clearly shows premium amounts -- and whether one is entitled to a subsidy. This could have more easily be handled by . . . wait for it . . . private enterprise.
So cynical, Speckle. Private enterprise is the only 'enterprise' that is up and running. Without glitches. Giving comparison quotes (einsurance.com), etc. The reason? That ugly word nobody likes: profitability.
As opposed to the .gov site . . . shared responsibility of the Federal and state governments . . .
Of course, in their defense, it's only fair to mention that the .gov site actually verifies income through its portal into the IRS system. Private enterprise simply takes people's word for their income and tells them what they're entitled to. They can't sign up there.
What a cluster****.
This could have more easily be handled by . . . wait for it . . . private enterprise.
Then what was stopping them?
Maybe I'm out of touch with domain fees for putting up a website, as well as what the current going rate is for a web designer to build a website, but will somebody please enlighten me as to how this could possibly cost more than even a million or 2?
This sounds just like those no-bid contracts that they would give to halliburton overcharging and scamming taxpayers...it's the same sht all over again.
634 million for a website. Anyone? Anyone want to try to itemize 10 million of it?
*chirp chirp
Here's another examination, admitting it was not $634 million, but conservative estimates still put it right up there. digitaltrends
Building a website doesn't even go into the hundred thousands, nor would the servers (computer equipment) that are necessary to run it. So what exactly are we talking about here? Can anybody get a clear picture of what exactly the costs are for? Or is it vagueness as usual, allowing hundreds of millions to be diverted into building bunkers for themselves?
Gross: U.S. Taxpayers Shelled Out $634,320,919 To Build Obamacare Website… | Weasel Zippers
Over 600 million dollars and 3 years and it doesn't even ****ing work. How lovely. Gee leftists lets just waste some more money, we can just print up more and it wont even matter.
634 million for a website. Anyone? Anyone want to try to itemize 10 million of it?
I think we can safely chalk up this one as This Is What Happens When You Give Government Money.
I can't because the number isn't accurate in the first place.
Building a website doesn't even go into the
hundred thousands, nor would the servers (computer equipment) that are necessary to run it. So what exactly are we talking about here? Can anybody get a clear picture of what exactly the costs are for? Or is it vagueness as usual, allowing hundreds of millions to be diverted into building bunkers for themselves?
They
didn't spend $634 million on that website.
The company that made the website does other government contracts. They've received $634 total over the last few years. (some of it before Obamacare was even signed into law) 114 different contracts, apparently.
I asked if anyone could itemize just 10 million of it....are you saying it's inaccurate and less than 10 million?
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