Cronyism, incompetence cited in failure of healthcare.gov site

By Rick Moran
October 15, 2013


A report by a private foundation on how the Obamacare website was designed reveals that cronyism and sheer incompetence is at fault for the spectacular failures of the rollout.

InfoWorld summed it up: "It was built by people who are apparently far more familiar with government cronyism than they are with IT."

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To state that cronyism and incompetence is the fault of the breakdown of the www.Healthcare.gov website is an understatement. This falls under the Transparency of the Obama administration and all the promises of this administration's promise to rid themselves of cronyism.

Stop the spam dude, you already made a topic blaming the poor website on something else entirely, so which is it?

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By RICHARD POLLOCK
OCTOBER 13, 2013



Topics: Watchdog Obamacare Health and Human Services Freedom of Information Act Accountability GAO

Federal officials considered only one firm to design the Obamacare health insurance exchange website that has performed abysmally since its Oct. 1 debut. Federal officials considered only one firm to design the Obamacare health insurance exchange...


Rather than open the contracting process to a competitive public solicitation with multiple bidders, officials in the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid accepted a sole bidder, CGI Federal, the U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian company with an uneven record of IT pricing and contract performance.

CMS officials are tight-lipped about why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed with CGI, or if there was ever a public solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of Obamacare’s problem-plagued web portal.

Instead, it appears they used what amounts to a federal procurement system loophole to award the work to the Canadian firm.

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Cronyism at it's highest form within the Most Transparent Administration Evah. Just another failed boondoggle from this inept, incompetent administration.