Experts stunned at cost for Healthcare.gov website development

My FOX-TV DC ^ | October 22, 2013

[Oldeconomybuyer]

“My overall sense, right from day one, was it was created by people who had never created a commercial database application before," said FMS Software developer Luke Chung.

Chung looked over the site and was stunned by the code and the cost - by some estimates, perhaps $200 million.

Chung continued, “At $200 an hour, that would be a million man hours, 5,000 man years. I don't think they had time to use 5,000 man years. So I don't know where the money went. I don't know what these people were doing. There're not that many web pages. I don't get it! Where'd the money go?"

[mojito]

Where'd the money go?

How many guesses do I get?

[tenger]

At least $394 million of it went to these contractors, starting on page 35. It's a massive boondoggle. This is from the Gov Accounting Office as of June 2013. Don't pin the blame on CGI. Lots of hands in the kitty...

[volunbeer]

The remnants of Acorn had computer programmers? Who knew?

[dfwgator]

Maybe they used Romney’s ORCA team.

[reegs]

No, he’s Wang Chung’s brother.

[Oratam]

see: Corruption, Tweed Courthouse

or, read this.

[Hoodat]

I just found out that ‘glitch’ is the Swahili word for ‘Fail’.

[driftdiver]

That’s a lot for such a minor website

[hal ogen]

I guess there will be a Special Prosecutor to investiugate this matter...maybe after the one for NSA...or IRS...or Benghazi...or????????? Shameful.

[First_Salute]

The 0-care Money Pit

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[VerySadAmerican]

Where did the money go? At this point, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?

There was a skit on Jon Stewart last night where a guy trying to log on got sucked into the program. Instead of the code being ones and zeros, it was fours and fives.

[DoodleDawg]

Someone once said, “You can sell anything to the government at almost any price you’ve got the guts to ask.” Unfortunately that individual was selling stuff to the government during the Civil War. It’s true then. It’s true now.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[tacticalogic]

Instead of the code being ones and zeros, it was fours and fives.

I'd say more like sixes and sevens.

[xzins]

Because republicans control the House.

[Scooter100]

I don't get it! Where'd the money go?"

It went into the Utah NSA/IRS/DHS data center.

[Yaelle]

This is what it was like in Saddam’s Iraq. Everything cost x to the 100 more,and the extras went into the cronies’ pockets. I hope that $ is making Uday and Qsay so happy these days...

[logitech]

“Being a boy-king ain’t easy.”

You got that right.

And being one of his pseudo-subjects ain’t no walk in the park either.

[what's up]

I wonder how many Caribbean vacations these incompetent thieves took on our dime when they should have been designing code.

Crony Chicago politics strikes again.