Obamacare site / tech cost $292 million to build

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I'm leaving this country the first chance I get. It's just getting worse and worse every year.

Obama wanted change...the bad it's in the opposite direction we need to go. What a joke

 

[nytebyte]

Obama's agenda, including the health care system is about controlling the people and redistributing wealth. ObamaCare has nothing whatsoever to do with improving health care.

It's about control.

Have you had enough yet? When do we finally say "enough" and revolt?

 

[Rebel]

Keep in mind. This all for the people.

We wanted change.

I want some more change in my wallet.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Obama's agenda, including the health care system is about controlling the people and redistributing wealth. ObamaCare has nothing whatsoever to do with improving health care.

It's about control.

Have you had enough yet? When do we finally say "enough" and revolt?

Same thing I said when it was Presidential Candidate Obama in 2008.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Even with the original budget they should have been able to take about third off the top imo. You need tons of people with an insanely diverse set of skills to make a web site that size scale, be compliant, be secure and be disaster recovery conscious. Everything from lawyers to dbas. Push as much static content to cdns as possible, shard databases by region and cache the fuck out of everything else you can. You are probably looking at 30 mil in infrastructure, 20 in people and 15 in other such as support and documentation. Split it into 4 main data centers use 4 nearby for disaster recovery and use sensible code.

What bothers me is it is a montreal company. Whatever happened to employing us devs?

Ed:after getting on it and fucking around some i would guess at least part of it is their dns servers fucking themselves. Could be an attack, it would be the most vulnerable to flooding.

 

[Burtonrider10022]

Has anyone tried to use the website yet? It's awful. You have to re-enter the exact same information page after page. Really? When I entered my home address on page 1, you can't auto-fill it on page 5? (just random numbers). And of course, they don't allow your browser to auto-complete the fields either.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Someone needs to get the Firebug plug in and see what the errors are on this. I think the flash is pretty much broken. I realize the urge to make shit shiny but why, why fucking flash on a site like this? All it's going to do is piss people off.

 

[Intel]

Why would anyone use flash when html5 is way better and isn't from the early 2000's

 

[Burtonrider10022]

There it is!!!

The Obama administration has been accused of cronyism after it was revealed Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is an executive at the company contracted to build the beleaguered Obamacare website.

Toni Townes-Whitley is senior vice president at CGI Federal, the U.S. arm of a Canadian company which won the no-bid contract for the problem-plagued website.

Townes-Whitley, from the Princeton class of ’85, and Michelle Obama are members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni, according to The Daily Caller.

Earlier this month, Washington Examiner reported the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid handed CGI Obamacare account without putting the contract out to competitive tender.

It has since been revealed four companies submitted bids, but only CGI was considered for the $93 million Healthcare.gov contract. Washington Examiner reported this is because CGI became an approved government vendor in 2007.

This meant the company could be assigned government contracts worth up to $4 billion until 2017 without having to bid publicly for them.

The company was approved before Barack Obama was first inaugurated in 2009.

Townes-Whitley reportedly joined CGI in May 2010.

CGI was one of 16 companies qualified under the Bush administration to provide certain tech services to the federal government.

However the discovery of Michelle Obama's relationship with a top executive at CGI Federal has sparked a social media storm, with Twitter punters accusing the Obama administration of cronyism.

Dan Carpenter ‏wrote: 'Isn't this cozy?????"Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI.'

Citizenwells ‏wrote: 'CGI Obamacare website contract Obamas (Barack & Michelle) crony capitalism or poor judgement.'

Radio personality Mark Simone wrote: 'How did bumbling CGI get a $678 mill no-bid contract to build the website? They were friends with Michelle.'

Meanwhile, Washington Examiner reported CGI has a troubled track record for the delivery of government contracts, highlighting a time when it failed to meet the deadline for a new online medical registry for diabetes patients and treatment providers.

Ontario, Canada, government officials cancelled the $46.2 million contract after 14 months of delay in September 2012. Ontario officials currently refuse to pay any fees to CGI for the failed IT project.

Michelle O's Princeton classmate is exec at company that built Obamacare website | Mail Online

 

[Chester Copperpot]

How convenient.

 

[Burtonrider10022]

How convenient.

I could feel your eyes roll as you said that.

 

[Mook]

To the rescue!

Oracle, Red Hat, And Google Employees Pitch In To Fix Beleaguered Healthcare.gov, Reports Indicate | TechCrunch

 

[radioguy6]

should have used those resources from the beginning, not the Canadians! and this will be

Private tech employees helping the public government untangle a website built in part by Canadian contractors? The leaks from this saga are going to be amazing.

 

[Ti28]

There it is!!!




Michelle O's Princeton classmate is exec at company that built Obamacare website | Mail Online

Isn't that just fucking swell! Lining each others pockets! obi one kenobi and princess fuck tard make me sick!

 

[Ti28]

To the rescue!

Oracle, Red Hat, And Google Employees Pitch In To Fix Beleaguered Healthcare.gov, Reports Indicate | TechCrunch

Aww, hire an Obama friend to do the job, the job fails. Call in American companies to fix the issue. I wonder how much this total bill is gonna be? 292m to some jack wad. 150m to Google? So now where to a half billion. For a FUCKING WEBSITE!

We are doomed!

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Oracle/RH were probably what the infrastructure was, and if that is the case they're probably contractually obligated to support it and in turn it's easier just to send people directly instead of working through their support systems. It would also very much be considered a "hot" customer so they would get special priority like that.

It could also use Google Cloud components on the back end, which would make them want to be sure they looked good about it and google has scalability experience that would be amazingly valuable. Not only is it just the right thing to do but as this grows and evolves there could be huge amounts of money at stake here. Money that makes 292M look like chump change. The politics of potential future contracts with the gov is so lucurative they'd be fools not to do it.

Don't forget that these companies also likely take a liberal slant from a corporate standpoint so it's "good service" to them as well. It's also very much a "shit hits the fan, we go in" attitude. Not to say it's free by any means. The free PR would also be worth even them "donating" a few individuals to a project for a few months, not to mention the aversion of potential negative publicity for doing something like "breaking the obamacare site."

 

[Mook]