Posted on 05/14/2014 11:25:22 AM PDT by jimbo123
Edited on 05/14/2014 11:31:16 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Employees at an ObamaCare processing center in Missouri with a contract worth $1.2 billion are reportedly getting paid to do nothing but sit at their computers.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“They’re told to sit at their computers and hit the refresh button every 10 minutes, no more than every 10 minutes,” the employee said. “They’re monitored, to hopefully look for an application.”
the British government launched an investigation into the firm’s parent company, Serco Group, for allegedly overbilling the government by “tens of millions of pounds”
The Obama administration defended the high-dollar contract
2 applications per month??
seriously??
This is pure insanity.
These people should all be arrested for theft
2/month..why that is outrageous..time to call in a UNION and vote..that is way too much work.
Which is all you need to know about Obamacare. A British firm is raking in American taxpayer money. Somehow it wouldn't seem quite so bad if and American company were doing it.
Reading between the lines, there aren’t 2 people a month in Missouri who actually want Obamacare.
Globalism at its finest. Gravy dripping down the chins of billionaires everywhere. American congress paying British workers. WHO is the owner/CEO of the Brit company? I’ll look it up when I get home.
Good work if you can get it!....................
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Well, that’s a big step up from watching porn, like the SEC and the EPA dudes (and dudettes, maybe) do.
SERCO, the “British company” bleeped up healthcare in Australia too:
The article says in part:
…”the facilities management contract for Fiona Stanley Hospital did not understand the “nuances” of running a hospital, Health Department boss Bryant Stokes says.
“Professor Stokes – who appeared before the Education and Health Standing Committee this morning – said he did not know, nor did he want to know, who was responsible for drafting the $4.3 billion contract between the Health Department and private contractor Serco in 2011.
“But said he suspected they might have considered patient administration “a small issue at the time.”
I’m going to track down more about Serco when I get home. A huge gravy train, getting paid off by cheating patients all over the world. Who owns this evil monolith? Barack and Moochelle?
Nice one. Good ole Dan Allen is running a tight ship—and getting investigated for fraud:
“G4S and Serco are both facing major fraud investigations into their criminal justice operations.” Here’s the article:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/13/call-for-serco-and-g4s-to-be-barred-from-prison-contracts
Alastair Lyons (Chairman)
Rupert Soames (CEO)
Serco Group plc is a British Outsourcing company based in Hook, Hampshire. Among its operations are public and private transport and traffic control, aviation, military and nuclear weapons contracts, detention centres and prisons and schools. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Serco operates in Continental Europe, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region and North America, but the majority of its turnover still comes from the UK.
Serco was founded in 1929 as a United Kingdom division of the Radio Corporation of America and initially provided services to the cinema industry. It changed its name to Serco in 1987 and has been a London Stock Exchange listed company since 1988.
On 29 December 2008, Serco completed its acquisition of SI International.
Serco, as well as its rival G4S, was accused of having overcharged the Ministry of Justice on its contract to tag offenders. It is now under criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office over the contract, where the Ministry was allegedly invoiced for tagging work that was never carried out. In some cases this was because the offender was apparently dead. The firm issued a profit warning for 2014 as a result of the costs of becoming embroiled in the electronic tagging scandal. Serco repaid £68.5m to the government for its overcharging on the contract. In May 2014 a Survation poll for campaign group We Own It, found that 63% of respondents thought Serco should be banned from bidding for any new public contracts after the firm was investigated for overcharging on government contracts. We Own It held a protest outside the company’s Annual General Meeting on 8th May called ‘Sick of Serco’. The group brought sick bags and proposed a Public Service Users Bill that would provide better, more transparently run services.
In September 2013, Serco was accused of extensive sexual abuse cover-ups of immigrants at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre prison in Bedfordshire, England.
Serco runs partly privatised Hünfeld Prison in Hesse, Germany.
The Union of Christmas Island Workers highlighted the systemic failure by Serco to manage the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. The centre detains a large number of refugees including 1,000 children. Under Serco, there has been an increase of deaths in custody, self-harm, and of Serco staff beating prisoners. As well, there has been a deterioration of facilities leading to the decline of the physical and the mental health of detainees and of staff. Ombudsman Allan Asher on the Australian radio show AM said, “In the first week of June when I visited Christmas Island, more than 30 incidents of self-harm by detainees held there were reported.”
Serco has a contract with the City of Chicago, Illinois to enforce parking meter regulations.
In health services, Serco’s difficulties include the poor handling of pathology labs and fatal errors in patient records. At St Thomas’ Hospital, the increase in the number of clinical incidents arising from Serco non-clinical management has resulted in patients receiving incorrect and infected blood, as well as patients suffering kidney damage due to Serco providing incorrect data used for medical calculations. A Serco employee later revealed that the company had falsified 252 reports to the National Health Service regarding Serco health services in Cornwall.
In July 2013 Serco was awarded a $1.25 billion contract to manage the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Serco is one of the 55 contractors hired by United States Department of Health and Human Services to work on the HealthCare.gov web site.
Rupert Christopher Soames, OBE (born 18 May 1959) is a British businessman, currently CEO of the Glasgow-based power equipment company Aggreko and due to move to Serco to become their CEO effective from 1 June 2014
Soames was born in Croydon and is a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, the son of Lord and Lady Soames, a nephew of the former Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys and Diana Churchill; the journalist Randolph Churchill and the actress and dancer Sarah Churchill and a great-nephew of the founders of the Scout movement, Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell. His brother is the Conservative MP Nicholas Soames
Upon graduation, he was offered a position at General Electric Company (GEC) by the managing director Arnold Weinstock. He remained at GEC for 15 years, working in the company’s avionics and computing divisions, and became managing director of Avery Berkel, running the company’s UK, India, Asia and Africa operations
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