Posted on 04/29/2014 5:03:45 PM PDT by jazusamo
Fixing the Obamacare website and improving it so it’s ready to handle a second round of enrollments will cost the federal government $121 million, according to Accenture, the contractor hired to repair the glitchy website after the original contractor, CGI Federal, was fired.
That cost is roughly $30 million more than initially projected, underscoring the price of trying to keep President Obama’s signature domestic law on track. The price is also about $30 million more than the reported value of CGI’s initial Obamacare contract, signed in 2011.
Accenture announced the deal in a press release on its website, saying the contract includes “enhancing the back-end capabilities to improve issuer payments,” adding fuel to recent suggestions there is plenty of work left on the so-called “back-office” functions of the exchange that make sure subsidy and premium payments are calculated correctly.
Government officials said the new contract requirements include functions that were not included in the initial launch.
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Cost feds?
This is on top of the 850 million that Michelle Obama’s college roommate’s company got for the first iteration?
No indictments yet?
I remember when Nazi Pelosi and Hopalong Harry Reid were looking for 1 million bucks to keep the CBO from saying ObammyCare was going to cost more than a billion dollars. Now we’re looking at spending 121 million on ObamaCare computers like it’s chump change. Somebody needs to go to jail.
The feds have a stash,
Yep, and we know where the feds get it.
Agreed...However a LOT of people should go to jail.
There...fixed it.
I could fix it for twice that much. They should think about calling me.
It won’t be wasted, it’ll go to another of Moochelle’s friends.
Actually it won’t cost the feds a penny.
It won’t cost the feds a penny.
Cost taxpayers! Why should taxpayers pay more to fix while the first
contractor walks away with hundreds millions of taxpayer dollars?
Yeah, sure...and when I see "the federal government" submit a damned tax form, I'll then believe that it ain't costing you and me a damned bundle for this atrocious, racist, ill-thought and hastily conceived bundle of scam.
Up yours, obama.
Unbelievable!!!
if bush had done such a spectacular failure and pissed away so much money - count the states and state portals paid with fedgov funds - the dems would be screaming to end it every time they had a chance to speak in front of a microphone. it would be nonstop full court press every chance they got.
our guys say we can’t do anything about it, and we better embrace amnesty.
we have traitors in our midst running things.
Exactly!
What a waste for something that WILL be repealed.
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