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Experts stunned at cost for Healthcare.gov website development
My FOX-TV DC ^ | October 22, 2013

Posted on 10/22/2013 6:05:39 AM PDT by 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?"

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; cgifederal; failure; fundingtheleft; healthcaredotgov; obamacare; obamacaregraphics; obamacaresoftware; obamacarewebsite; pricetag; rinocare; slushfund
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Experts stunned at cost for Healthcare.gov website development

This is foolish criticism.

If the administration doesn't have bloated contracts with huge cost over-runs where do the critics think the money for kickbacks will come from?

DUH !!!


61 posted on 10/22/2013 7:05:17 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: albie

62 posted on 10/22/2013 7:09:18 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: A CA Guy

We know that his campaign web designer did a lot of the Obamacare web design with her new company up in Michigan.

Also, I believe the confirmed cost numbers are over $600 million, which I’m sure makes it the most expensive web site launch—probably by an order of magnitude—in history.

And still, nobody can give a good explanation for why we had to nationalize so much of the healthcare insurance sales business. Subsidies, new policy requirements, and Medicaid steering could have been accomplished—however distasteful the idea of them at all—in the existing private sector system.


63 posted on 10/22/2013 7:09:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Hoodat; maggief; MestaMachine; hoosiermama; TigersEye; penelopesire; ConservativeMan55; ...

We are winning check out Stewart from last night,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qtx_ZcHOjw#t=39


64 posted on 10/22/2013 7:13:48 AM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: Old North State

You are right.
Where are the REAL reporters?


65 posted on 10/22/2013 7:14:53 AM PDT by pugmama
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To: American Constitutionalist

That remark of hers always bothered me. Maybe they were all working to take Orca down.


66 posted on 10/22/2013 7:16:09 AM PDT by pugmama
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The crime of horse stealing resulted in hanging

The pillaging of the treasury is a far, far more insidious and worse crime than horse theft.


67 posted on 10/22/2013 7:17:11 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: 9YearLurker
Maybe they are corralling the population for a national fail among what will be a world fail.

Long term are we looking at the one-world-government I always thought only kooks talked about.

I don't honestly get the public’s lack of political knowledge or how easy it has been for public education and the press to keep them in the dark about what is real and what is the liberal religion.

68 posted on 10/22/2013 7:17:48 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

“”””There is something fishy going on here and it is not just emanating from Hillary’s under-thingies!””””

Well there goes my breakfast. thanks alot!


69 posted on 10/22/2013 7:19:05 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: Old North State
You remember during the last election how we were told the Democrats had such great voter tracking and contact software? How it was much better and more high tech than anybody had ever seen before? How people were saying, Wow where did that come from, must have cost a fortune. Remember that?

That bears repeating.

Is this where all that money went...?

70 posted on 10/22/2013 7:19:18 AM PDT by Gritty (Progressives see themselves as saints, opponents as Satanists; that justifies anything-D. Horowitz)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

People are going to have to buy additional coverage and go back to the abortion alley in fear of government blackmail.

Check it out, the inequality language of Obama will however attack people getting extra coverage, thus attacking anything private.

So you see, it is not just a tax, it is tyranny. Justice Roberts never looked into it.


71 posted on 10/22/2013 7:25:56 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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?”


Backdoor money sieve to leftist donors, no doubt.


72 posted on 10/22/2013 7:26:18 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Government: Slimy used car salesmen writing laws forcing you to buy their cars)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
If it proves to be the downfall of ObamaCare, then it was money well spent.

Outragous waste of money on a system that does not work and only lined the pockets of politically connected, 'health care policies' that are unaffordable, and the loss of perfectly serviceable employer provided coverage, just might start the cascade toward repeal.

Then again it might not. I've not much faith left in the American Public on making wise political decisions.

73 posted on 10/22/2013 7:26:35 AM PDT by sjmjax (HE)
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To: mmichaels1970

Intuit: simple and effective

Government: Complex and ineffective

The marriage would not have ended well.


74 posted on 10/22/2013 7:28:58 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Government: Slimy used car salesmen writing laws forcing you to buy their cars)
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To: A CA Guy

See, all those kids given good grades for failing will find it unfair to criticize Obama. What a deal. We never let them try communism, always failing them when they failed.

People are stupid. They are not looking into this beyond their betting at the kennel club for that snake pretend race dog Obama.


75 posted on 10/22/2013 7:29:17 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Some people say that experts agree!! Whenever I see or hear "experts" in a news segment. Off it goes.
76 posted on 10/22/2013 7:31:19 AM PDT by 4yearlurker
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To: A CA Guy

Oh, absolutely they want us by the short hairies to assure a transition to fully nationalized (shall we just call it communist?) medicine.


77 posted on 10/22/2013 7:31:37 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
..... In the search to hire a company to help develop a simple, practical, easy to use, user friendly site ..... why did this Administration purposely seek out an ill reputed foreign company that had just been fired from the Canadian federal government for not being able to deliver the exact same product for the exact same purpose for the Healthcare services in Canada, a country of about 35 million people/customers. The product ordered for the US would need to service 350 million people/customers. To make matters worse ..... there are estimates floating out there that the administration has actually paid in upwards to 600 million dollars for the developing of the site. Why so much money to be paid to a failed foreign company? Now we find out that they have to redesign the entire site!!! Is that money well spent or was it the laundering of money? Where did the money go?

..... So .... what is wrong with this picture? They could have hired a more reputable American company to do the same task for a mere fraction of the cost. Something does not add up here. Trusting that this administration actually has two functioning brain cells to put together .... the only way this thing makes any sense at all is if they were actually proceeding with a planned failure of the site. But the question still remains ... where did the money go .... and what was it really used for?

...... Deep Throat said it best:.... "FOLLOW THE MONEY!"

78 posted on 10/22/2013 7:32:53 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: sjmjax

The media will divide people according to their bets. It is not about proof of worth when it comes to mafya gambling Harry Reid Vegas stupid style.

It is about betting aginst the other guy, war mongering, and “winning” by sheer luck or cheats.

That is the Obama crowd for you, and that is how the media plays pseudorace horses like Hillary Donkey Clinton.


79 posted on 10/22/2013 7:34:11 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: rdcbn
" The Program was written by “seasoned Obama political campaign IT operatives.”

You mean Obama's political operatives like these 2 ?


80 posted on 10/22/2013 7:40:34 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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