How federal cronies built — and botched — Healthcare.gov | E government – InfoWorld.
Here’s all you need to know…
The biggest problem with Healthcare.gov seems simple enough: It was built by people who are apparently far more familiar with government cronyism than they are with IT.
And if you need to know more, try this on for size…
“All but one of of the 47 contractors who won contracts to carry out work on the Affordable Care Act worked for the government prior to its passage,” the report reads. Some of the names ought to be familiar: Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Deloitte, and Booz Allen Hamilton, all of whom assumed different roles and worked on different aspects of the project.
As familiar as those names might be, especially to those who follow Beltway lobbying practices, few of them would be as commonly associated with large-scale IT projects as, say, Google, Amazon.com, or Dell would be — especially when it came to building the public-facing components of the system.
You can’t make this stuff up.
The problem is the government knows everything and the last place they wanted to go for help with healthcare.gov was the actual industry that was involved with selling individual health policies. One, because the old policies were inferior contaminated product and two, they wanted to reinvent how the product was sold. Well, they sure reinvented how they are being sold, I’ll give them that.
The idiots first stop should have been ehealthinsurance.com. Goodness gracious alive, they know the industry, have built a website that interfaces with the public and has high volumes of traffic.
All the government needs is more time and more money and the world will be perfect. Pony up your $$’s Boulderites.
