Shocking data released Thursday by a highly regarded Bloomberg government analyst put the Obamacare website rollout cost at over $1 billion. This represents a $600 million increase over the price tag usually associated with the Affordable Care Act, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Unfortunately, the bad news does not end here. Due to the multitude of kinks and glitches so far encountered and the anticipated overload of problems yet to be exposed, the website costs will continue to escalate.
Bloomberg’s Peter Gosselin offered, “Given the seriousness of the IT problems and the fact that most of the contracts are on a cost-plus basis, the companies almost certainly are in line for another burst of spending aimed at quickly making repairs.”
Just yet another sign that the US Government has completely broken down. How can anyone spend $500 Million (with cost estimated to balloon to $1 Billion) on a website that doesn’t even work is beyond me.
As someone who has build a number of fairly complex websites I cannot understand how the website they have built can cost anywhere close to that much money. They could have outsourced it to India or Russia or they could have found a few college kids who would have built them a killer application for as little as $10 Million. I guarantee you that. The cost that they are paying is astronomical and just shows how broken down the system is.
It is just another symptom of complete mismanagement and fraud that is the US Government. They borrow money they do not have and repay it with money printed out of thin air, they wage wars against cave dwellers with AK-47 by shooting at them with Million dollar missiles, they spent $1 Billion on a website that should only cost $10 Million and they goose the economy with cheap credit at the expense of a future collapse. How is any of this going to end well?
It will not.
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