Posted on 05/13/2014 7:01:51 AM PDT by 11th Commandment
News 4 dug for answers after finding out workers in Wentzville are being paid do nothing at a facility where they are supposed to be processing paper applications of those signing up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Click the video above for the full report.
Also this story is typical of ALL government cost plus contracts. There is no, zero, nada incentive for contractor to save the government money. If fact, the opposite is true.
However, the real problem is CMS which is aware of the waste of this paper application program but renewed the contract. If CMS cut back the contract it would essentially admit ObamaCare failure.
Democrats are hiring a bunch of democrats to do nothing.
Republicans are sending US jobs to China.
Bring back American jobs.
Both parties. Build up America one again.
Obama and ALL HIS acolytes must be run out of government and government service on a rail and sooner rather than later.
Democrat or republican; I doubt anyone is surprised by this.
We knew it would happen — useless public employees added to the rolls.
In the video, Senator Roy Blunt (R) was "surprised". Really Blunt, years in the House and now a Freshman Senator and you do not know the scam of government contracting? No wonder we have so much waste.
Wealth Redistribution - that was one of the main objectives of Obamacare:
Extort more money from taxpayers and use it to create do-nothing jobs for moochers and other Obama voters.
Typical 0bama “Serco Jerk”.
Billion-dollar ObamaCare contract pays people to do … nothing?
What kind of business could possibly survive by simply hitting refresh buttons every 10 minutes while no business comes across their desks? If you guessed public sector, congratulations, and claim a bonus for specifying ObamaCare. St Louis’ KMOV News looked into an ObamaCare contractor with a billion-dollar contract after hearing employee complaints that the well-motivated workforce is getting paid to do nothing — a whole lot of nothing (via Daniel Halper):
“A billion dollar government contract involving hundreds of local workers at an Obamacare processing center … But now employees on the inside are stepping forward, asking, Is this why we’re broke? Some of them claim to spend most of their day doing nothing,” reports a local St. Louis reporter.
The contractor is called Serco and local reporter discovered that, despite there not being any work to be done, the government contractor is still hiring.
“The company is still hiring,” says a local reporter. “A current employee wonders why … After providing proof of employment, this Serco employee agreed to speak through the phone with their voice altered. The employee says hundreds of employees spend much of the day staring at computer screens, with little or no work to do.”
The reporter asks the employee, “Are there some days where a data entry person may not process one single application?”
“There are weeks when a data entry person would not process an application,” the employee responds.
The reporter explains, “The facility is one of three Serco locations that process paper applications, people seeking to qualify for insurance.”
More...
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/05/13/billion-dollar-obamacare-contract-pays-people-to-do-nothing/
These Serco employees aren’t the only people experiencing a disillusionment in government solutions and spending. The New York Times finally gets around to reporting an ObamaCare phenomenon that has been well-known for months — that the so-called savings in the system came from substantially limiting access to physicians in provider networks (via Jeff Dunetz):
In the midst of all the turmoil in health care these days, one thing is becoming clear: No matter what kind of health plan consumers choose, they will find fewer doctors and hospitals in their network — or pay much more for the privilege of going to any provider they want.
These so-called narrow networks, featuring limited groups of providers, have made a big entrance on the newly created state insurance exchanges, where they are a common feature in many of the plans. While the sizes of the networks vary considerably, many plans now exclude at least some large hospitals or doctors’ groups. Smaller networks are also becoming more common in health care coverage offered by employers and in private Medicare Advantage plans.
Insurers, ranging from national behemoths like WellPoint, UnitedHealth and Aetna to much smaller local carriers, are fully embracing the idea, saying narrower networks are essential to controlling costs and managing care. Major players contend they can avoid the uproar that crippled a similar push in the 1990s.
“We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has,” said Marcus Merz, the chief executive of PreferredOne, an insurer in Golden Valley, Minn., that is owned by two health systems and a physician group. “We’re all trying to break away from this fixation on open access and broad networks.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/05/13/billion-dollar-obamacare-contract-pays-people-to-do-nothing/
Workers paid taxpayer dollars to do nothing is nothing new we’ve had it for years it’s called congress and senate.
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