The most expensive government website in history just continues to absorb tax money at an incredible rate and for apparently poor results. Now nearly $20 million has gone to pay for increased capacity for Healthcare.gov anticipated as the March 31 deadline closes in… Only the government essentially erased the deadline so it could move the finish line in the race to make ObamaCare appear successful.
The expenditures appear to relate to the increased capacity that CMS has said was being added in anticipation of increased interest in obtaining Marketplace insurance as the March 31 deadline nears. The government had previously announced that Terremark, a subsidiary of Verizon, was being replaced by Hewlett-Packard. However, since the switch-over was scheduled for the end of March just as open enrollment is ending, CMS awarded Terremark a $58,000,000, seven-month extension back in January. In December, prior to these new expenditures, in an attempt to appear more responsible about the implementation of ObamaCare, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced CMS would create a new Chief Risk Officer (CRO) position. Sebelius described the new CRO’s initial task as follows: The Chief Risk Officer’s first assignment will be to review risk management practices when it comes to IT [information technology] acquisition and contracting, starting with identifying the risk factors that impeded the successful launch of the HealthCare.gov website. I will ask this individual to report back to me in 60 days with recommendations for strategies to mitigate risks in future large-scale, CMS contracting and IT acquisition projects. Now over three months later there has been no word of any Chief Risk Officer and by the look of the bill above the spending on Healthcare.gov continues out of control. In fact, as later as February 7, no Chief Risk Officer shows up on the CMS organizational chart. Where are the “recommendations for strategies to mitigate risks” the CRO was to submit within 60 days of being appointed? Where is all this money actually being spent? Source: The Weekly Standard The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released details of the latest contract with Terremark Federal Group covering “open market items” required for the ongoing operation of Healthcare.gov. The documents include an itemized list of computing and network services, fees, licenses and computing capacity. The total comes to $19,755.465.98 and covers four months:
i remember that old tom hanks movie. lol. this is designed to fail to push to a single payer system
Is ANYONE sick of this?????
We need to put a stop to this moronic activity! Just think of all the money wasted on obamacare and vacations! Would have put a dent in our national debt!
the scam attracts scammers the more money the more interesting it seems to them
very sick of it
why does this ”t**d in the punch bowel” still have a job? is there no-one that can do as good as her BS. no-one else will take on this stinking heap on garbage this will never get fixed there is too many mils $$$ to be made off this floundering albatross ”killing the goose that laid the golden eyes” will never happen
Anything that WASTES TAXPAYER DOLLARS is fine and dandy with SLOB-OBAMA and the LIBERETARDS!
who in the hell is approving this funding???
one of those plans has a 12 thousand deductible. anyone have that in their underwear drawer ?
It’s only OUR $$$$$$