Sounds like Obama is moving forward to his very own Cloward-Pivens state of being overwhelmed.
Posted on 11/19/2013 12:05:53 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The ongoing struggles of healthcare.gov are creating an understandable sense of anxiety and unease among Democrats in Washington. The site is a key element of the party’s central recent policy initiative. Abject failure will be devastating to the reputation of Democrats nationwide, including huge swaths of people who had no crucial role in the design of the Affordable Care Act and certainly nothing to do with the information technology architecture of the federal insurance exchange.
One place where people aren’t panicking is in the actual belly of the beast—the offices of CGI Federal, the U.S. division of the global IT services company whose slow and steady rise to power David Auerbach profiled earlier this month in Slate.
CGI personnel continue to work on fixing the problem in advance of the president’s Nov. 30 quasi-deadline, but they are doing so in a not-especially-panicked manner. Officially the White House is trying to avoid spats with its partners, but government employees working on the site’s implementation tell me contractors have plenty of time to spend quibbling with the Department of Health and Human Services over which changes are really remedying defects and which are billable as new work.
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When you have ‘em by the Terms & Conditions, their wallets will follow.
Sounds like Obama is moving forward to his very own Cloward-Pivens state of being overwhelmed.
Well put.
Yes.
Such a shame.
I highly suspect that this is the root of the problem...contractors have no incentive to do a job fast. The longer they can stretch it out the more money they get.
In reality, they should be scrambling to make amends and do fixes for free. However, it seems they will drag their feet and insist on more money even though they've already spent huge sums on junk.
Yep. As an old-school general contractor once told me, “all the money is in the change orders”.
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