How much federal tax revenue was spent on these exchanges?

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http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Sto...n-health-insurance-marketplace-exchanges.aspx

The delay is striking given that Oregon’s exchange has received more federal grant money — more than $300 million — than all but two other states, California and New York. Washington received $152 million.
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The above represents over a billion, just on those four states. Who the hell is designing these websites?

I am not a web designer or tech saavy person, but this seems insanely extreme for website development.
 
I've already pointed out that the amount they spent for just the Federal site was enough to make a site for every state a few times over. They truly overspent at an incredible level, and none of it "counts" against the ACA in the books. And they did the worst job of security I've ever seen. They should have built the site around a well-designed security, instead they're trying to add security to a mismatched set of mush.

I'll see if I can find that story where the security experts were talking about how it would take a year to fix some of the gaping holes, and that doesn't even start with the less visible mess they have yet to even start to tackle.
 
Damocles said:
I've already pointed out that the amount they spent for just the Federal site was enough to make a site for every state a few times over. They truly overspent at an incredible level, ...
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When it comes to our Federal Government what else is new?
 
More tax money flushed down the toilet...

Connecticut Health Exchange Buys Three Murals for $24,980 Each

AccessHealthCT, the quasi-public state agency that runs Connecticut’s Obamacare exchange, spent nearly $75,000 to commission three murals, plus nearly $4,000 to have one of them installed.


Contracts with the three artists — Adam Niklewicz, Katro Storm, and Rafael Cornier Jr. — show they were each paid $24,980 to produce murals 8 feet tall and 32 feet long.


The agency paid AdamsAhern Sign Solutions $3,945.51 to install the Niklewicz mural at the Hispanic Health Council in Hartford.


Just before Thanksgiving, state officials gathered at Optimus Health Care in Bridgeport to unveil the Cornier mural, which, according to the New Haven Register, is intended to inspire New Haven residents to “embrace health and wellness.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...buys-three-murals-24980-each-zachary-janowski

:rofl2:

So a fucking mural is going to inspire me to embrace health and wellness??? They should all be dragged outside and beaten to death with a baseball bat.
 
Superfreak said:
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Sto...n-health-insurance-marketplace-exchanges.aspx



The above represents over a billion, just on those four states. Who the hell is designing these websites?

I am not a web designer or tech saavy person, but this seems insanely extreme for website development.
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People keep harping on about it being just a website as if it was a LAMP server* sitting in someone's garage connecting to the internet via ADSL lines. Server farms, data centres and network infrastructure aren't cheap. It also can't be easy having to interface to loads of different exchanges situated all over the US. Not sure if they built a separate network for all that or just VPN'ed the traffic probably a mixture of both. I think the main problem is the lack of traffic testing due to the legislation being signed late and thus delaying the tendering process and contract signing. I daresay there was a bit of pork and corruption involved as well but that is par for the course.

* Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
 
A billion dollars to design websites... that don't work.

That is 10,000 $100k surgeries/precedures that could have been paid for with that money. So much waste.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
People keep harping on about it being just a website as if it was a LAMP server* sitting in someone's garage connecting to the internet via ADSL lines. Server farms, data centres and network infrastructure aren't cheap. It also can't be easy having to interface to loads of different exchanges situated all over the US. Not sure if they built a separate network for all that or just VPN'ed the traffic probably a mixture of both. I think the main problem is the lack of traffic testing due to the legislation being signed late and thus delaying the tendering process and contract signing. I daresay there was a bit of pork and corruption involved as well but that is par for the course.

* Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
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You mean like the server farms, data centers, infrastructure that is already in place for Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security? You mean like that?

While they certainly had to add to their capacity, it is not as if they were recreating the wheel.
 
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