Posted on 05/13/2014 3:39:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
When Obamacare operatives aren't busy trashing the private health insurance market and squandering billions on useless technology, they're busy ... being idle. File the latest example of government health care profligacy under "Caution: Your tax dollars not at work."
According to at least one Obamacare paper-pusher, employees at an application-processing center in Wentzville, Mo., are getting paid to sit around and do nothing. Investigative reporter Chris Nagus of the St. Louis television station KMOV News 4 spoke to the whistleblower. "They want to hire more people even though we still don't have work to keep the people that we have busy," the worker revealed. "There are some weeks that a data entry person would not process an application."
The worker — or rather, shirker — also spilled the beans on how his colleagues are "told to sit at their computers and hit the refresh button every 10 minutes." Another former worker at the processing facility added that the company "is a JOKE! There is nothing to do — NO WORK."
You will not be surprised to learn that the company in charge of these Obamacare layabouts is embroiled in scandal — around the world, no less.
Multinational tech management company Serco won a $1.2 billion contract with the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid last summer to "support" the beleaguered Obamacare health care exchanges. (According to the latest estimates, nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer subsidies have now been squandered on inoperable or defunct health care exchanges in Massachusetts, Oregon, Nevada and Maryland.) In addition to the office in Missouri, Serco oversees Obamacare processing centers in Rogers, Ark., Lawton, Okla., and London, Ken., which are projected to "employ" up to 10,000 people.
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I wonder if I could make some money on an app (or even a machine) that pushes the refresh button at random intervals between 1 and 10 minutes? I’d hate to see somebody fired for not looking busy.
I worked for a private company that took over a gov’t program of transporting sickly people around.
The lady that trained me took 8 hrs to process a day’s paperwork. After 6 months I had it down to 1.5 hrs.
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