1% Of Those That Got Through Exchanges Are Enrolled

Canadian firm hired to build troubled Obamacare exchanges

A Canadian tech firm that has provided service to that country's single-payer health care system is behind the glitch-ridden United States national health care exchange site healthcare.gov.

CGI Federal is a subsidiary of Montreal-based CGI Group. With offices in Fairfax, Va., the subsidiary has been a darling of the Obama administration, which since 2009 has bestowed it with $1.4 billion in federal contracts, according to USAspending.gov.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded CGI $55.7 million to launch Healthcare.gov, its central Obamacare health exchange website. Over the full five years of the contract, CGI could receive as much as $93.7 million.

Earlier this year the U.S. Government Accountability Office criticized the pace of development and testing for Healthcare.gov.'s IT system and noted that it was missing important milestone deadlines.

Consumers have encountered widespread problems since Obamacare's website went live on Tuesday. The system has crashed, pages do not open and many citizens complain they cannot register.

HHS is by far the single largest federal contractor of CGI, showering it with $645 million in contracts. The Defense Department pays the Canadian company $254 million, the EPA $58 million and the Justice Department $36 million.

The General Services Administration, which oversees many government buildings, has contracts with CGI valued at $35 million, according to USASpending.gov.

In comparison, in 2008, under President George W. Bush, CGI contracts totaled only $16.5 million for all federal departments and agencies.

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http://washingtonexaminer.com/canad...-troubled-obamacare-exchanges/article/2536805
 
blackascoal said:
Why Canadians? Why are we showering all this money on a Canadian firm when American workers and firms are available?
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Low bid wins. You know that.

And you don't know how many Americans they are employing on this project. Just because they are based in Canada doesn't mean they aren't using US workers.
 
blackascoal said:
Thank you sister, that was a really good article that I absolutely agree with. I have said all along that this thing has not been properly tested .. and that did not take rocket science to figure out. It only takes knowledge of how to properly implement systems .. something that some here have no clue how to accomplish, nor how to benchmark code.

'Hardware is the easy part' .. is absolutely correct. You can't just throw hardware at poor design.
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And this coming from a genuine data entry clerk so you can take it to the bank!!!!!!!!! You're hilarious, J. Calhoun!!!!!

Petula
 
Big money said:
So you admit that under Obamas "leadership" wages have stagnated. Good.
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American wages have been stagnant since 1980. And American business profits have soared through the ceiling. But, it's very telling just what kind of jerk you are by applauding those facts with your simple remark, "good."

Petula
 
blackascoal said:
I have the fake ass racist laughing stock of the board 'negroe' on ignore.

It's a waste of time.
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Still struggling with just who you are, stymie? Do I remind you of YOU? I should be. That is my intention. And I would NEVER consider you a "waste of time" in any context. That would be a part of the symptomology of your sicknesses.

Petula
 
blackascoal said:
Canadian firm hired to build troubled Obamacare exchanges
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Relying on articles and opinion written by longtime Obama administration critic Richard Pollack is not exactly keeping in good faith for honest reporting or really reporting in any form. It's meant to be opinion and by design as critical as possible of the Obama administration. Truth be damned.

Petula
 
Big money said:
Earlier you claimed "we had a bump under Clinton". Why hasn't Obama done something about it? Tell me.
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I'm not the one that said that, but it is true. And President Barack Hussein Obama is doing miracles with the disastrous economy that he inherited from the credit card bunch with their global depression desires. And wages are again rising.

Petula
 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404579119740283413018.html

* POLITICS
* October 6, 2013, 8:42 p.m. ET

Software, Design Defects Cripple Health-Care Website
Government Acknowledges It Needs to Fix Design and Software Problems


* By CHRISTOPHER WEAVER
* , SHIRA OVIDE
* and LOUISE RADNOFSKY
*

Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for the first time Sunday it needed to fix design and software problems that have kept customers from applying online for coverage.

The Obama administration said last week that an unanticipated surge of Web traffic caused most of the problems and was a sign of high demand by people seeking to buy coverage under the new law.

But federal officials said Sunday the online marketplace needed design changes, as well as more server capacity to improve efficiency on the federally run exchange that serves 36 states.

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The website is troubled by coding problems and flaws in the architecture of the system, according to insurance-industry advisers, technical experts and people close to the development of the marketplace.

Among the technical problems thwarting consumers, according to some of those people, is the system to confirm the identities of enrollees. Troubles in the system are causing crashes as users try to create accounts, the first step before they can apply for coverage.

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Information technology experts who examined the healthcare.gov website at the request of The Wall Street Journal said the site appeared to be built on a sloppy software foundation. Such a hastily constructed website may not have been able to withstand the online demand last week, they said.

Engineers at Web-hosting company Media Temple Inc. found a glut of stray software code that served no purpose they could identify. They also said basic Web-efficiency techniques weren't used, such as saving parts of the website that change infrequently so they can be loaded more quickly. Those factors clog the website's plumbing, Media Temple said.

The identity-checking foul-ups are also triggering problems for state-run exchanges, which rely on the federal system. The problem caused delays last week for users of MNsure, Minnesota's exchange, as they waited for federal confirmation to create their accounts, said April Todd-Malmlov, MNsure's executive director. She said the issue in her state was largely resolved by Friday.

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Village Negroe said:
I'm not the one that said that, but it is true. And President Barack Hussein Obama is doing miracles with the disastrous economy that he inherited from the credit card bunch with their global depression desires. And wages are again rising. Petula
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So you lied when you claimed "American wages have been stagnant since the 80s".

Can you provide evidence for your other assertions?
 
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The Obama administration said last week that the Obamacare website was down due to a surge in traffic. But now it says problems with the website are due to design and software flaws, the Wall Street Journal reports.


The website is troubled by coding problems and flaws in the architecture of the system, according to insurance-industry advisers, technical experts and people close to the development of the marketplace.


Among the technical problems thwarting consumers, according to some of those people, is the system to confirm the identities of enrollees. Troubles in the system are causing crashes as users try to create accounts, the first step before they can apply for coverage.


Information technology experts told the Wall Street Journal that the website appeared to be built on a “sloppy software foundation,” possibly due to hasty construction.


Engineers at Web-hosting company Media Temple Inc. found a glut of stray software code that served no purpose they could identify. They also said basic Web-efficiency techniques weren’t used, such as saving parts of the website that change infrequently so they can be loaded more quickly. Those factors clog the website’s plumbing, Media Temple said.


Administration officials, who reported nearly nine million unique visitors to the federally run exchange as of Friday night, said the system underwent maintenance over the weekend.




http://freebeacon.com/obamacare-website-full-of-software-design-problems/
 
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