The
Obamacare roll out and its site, healthcare.gov (I’m not linking it; it has
enough problems), is a disaster mocked by geeks. But at least somebody
is getting their money’s worth. . . . It’s just not us taxpayers:
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. [Actually, CGI may have gotten
just over half of that sum with others getting the rest, but you get the
picture. – ed.] 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.
Possibly
up to $634,320,919 . . . For a really crappy website – your taxdollars at work
under the Obama Administration.
Heck,
you could throw $10K into a room of teenage nerds and do better.
And,
yes, I agree with the Instapundit:
Somebody look up the folks at
CGI Federal, which got the money, and see what their connections to the
Administration are. . . .
I don’t
know what would be worse, that the Obama Regime is that incompetent . . . or
that corrupt.
1 comment:
An update: I've heard different numbers on this since I posted. It is hard to get one's arms around just how much has been spent on Healthcare.gov (which is one reason I hedged my post with "?" and the like). But the $634,320,919 may be inflated.
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