Posted on 02/23/2016 8:40:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
During the two years before the disastrous opening of HealthCare.gov, federal officials in charge of creating the online insurance marketplace received 18 written warnings that the mammoth project was mismanaged and off course but never considered postponing its launch, according to government investigators.
The warnings included a series of 11 scathing reviews from an outside consultant - among them a top-10 list of risks drawn up in the spring of 2013 that cited inadequate planning for the website's capacity and deviations from usual IT standards. A few months before, then-Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had hired another consultant to review the project and recommend ways to improve its management, but its advice was never shared with the technical staff working on the website.
It concludes that the central reason for the problems rested not with the shoddy work of vital IT contractors but with mismanagement by federal health officials carrying out this part of the law.
The investigators also concluded that once the crisis erupted the initial repair blitz was not primarily the result of the "tech surge" ballyhooed by the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Why should it? After all, nearly every page in that law has the qualifier “at the secretary’s discretion” emblazoned on it.
That whole law is nothing but gang rape committed against the American people.
“Screwing the pooch”. If you’re the federal gov’t, it’s what you do.
so what? Washington (Com)Post failed to heed many warnings that Obamacare is a furking disaster.
Cuz they expected that every state would jump at the start up funds....but they didn’t.
Heads would roll in the private sector for this.
yes, and I still feel sore...the WP story wants us to believe HC.gov floundered because of bad management. Nobody is that incompetent. It was a raw political calculation to force and fake the grand opening. The decision was made by the WH - why? Because they figured they could get away it.
IMO this was only meant to only be a stepping stone all along. next stop....single payer.
If I were the next President, I would issue an Executive Order that bans any entity, agency or component of the government to issue or support payment to him for healthcare not associated with his putting his Muslim ass online and going through one of his own exchanges and getting his healthcare. Eff him.
The veritable truth.
HERE’S a broad who ought to be in an orange jump suit, for SURE!
These are the people The Bern wants to place entirely in charge of our health care.
Scummy incompetent liberal elites with delusions of grandeur...
It is an epic fail even by socialist https://www.facebook.com/kristi.norman.18?fref=tsstandards.
Disregard previous post. How did that happen? Let’s try again.
“It is an epic fail even by socialist standards.”
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