Posted on 09/28/2013 1:45:21 PM PDT by yoe
Some state governments are willing to hire offshore IT service providers to work on healthcare IT projects under controversial contracts that don't bar use of temporary foreign labor, or workers on H-1B visas.
Two multimillion-dollar government healthcare IT projects, one in Illinois and the other in the District of Columbia, illustrate what's going on.
In Illinois, Cognizant was awarded a $74.1 million contract in June to upgrade the state's Medicaid systems to meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.
In January, the District of Columbia (D.C. awards Obamacare IT work to offshore outsourcer)
[snip} "Due to the shortage of qualified talent in many parts of the U.S., we routinely file LCAs when we anticipate a large contract to ramp up," Cognizant said in a statement. "Our first course of action is always to seek out qualified U.S. workers to fill these positions. We file LCAs as a fallback measure in the event that we are not able to find qualified U.S. workers."
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
...oh yeah, expect background checks here....jeeezz he really does hate the US.
Well Bambam can hire DeToilet or whatever to help in the IT department. =)
Obama’s now recruiting legions of foreigners to snoop into our most intimate records and to destroy our freedoms.
And how many citizens are seeking employment???
Well, they’ve already allowed our confidential medical records to be off-shored to 3rd world countries, such as India and the Philippines, to perform the medical transcription work that Americans have done for decades. Next up will be coders. The trouble is....these foreign workers are not bound by the same strict privacy laws as U.S. workers.
Am I Alice in Wonderland? This is Bizzaro-world under the beneficence of Clown Prince nobama.
Am I Alice in Wonderland? This is Bizzaro-world under the beneficence of Clown Prince nobama.
So some schmo in India is going to have access to my healthcare records?
Yes. They will know all about your sex life.
Kinda the way I’m reading it. How many more chapters are their in this horror novel? This is some serious psyops they are doing on the average American.
Thank you johnny podesta, you freakin pos. Too bad Breitbart didn’t out you thoroughly before leaving us way too soon.
Oh, and that charming cass sunstein, Mr. Nudge himself. These people are not human, they simply defy any sense of what is real.
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