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Incompetence? From the Obama Administration? Surely you're as shocked as I am!
But really, it's true. The GAO says so.
A nonpartisan congressional investigation has concluded that management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for the computer woes that paralyzed President Barack Obama's health care program website last fall, officials told The Associated Press.
The findings are in a report to be released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office, which has spent months investigating the health law's chaotic rollout. GAO is the nonpartisan investigative agency of Congress.
The official report doesn't come out until tomorrow, but Washington insiders are already leaking it to the media. And it doesn't paint a very pretty picture of Dear Leader's minions at HHS.
Among its conclusions:
· Contractors were not given a coherent plan, and instead they were kept jumping around from issue to issue.
· The cost of the project grew by tens of millions of dollars as the contractors tried to accommodate administration requests.
· CMS, the lead agency, failed to follow up on whether contractors were doing the work assigned to them, and to review that work for quality.
· CMS sent conflicting signals, at one point notifying one contractor it was so dissatisfied that it would start withholding payments, and then quickly rescinded that decision.
· The type of federal contract that the administration selected for HealthCare.gov was open-ended, which may have encouraged costly changes.
What else would you expect from a bunch of socialists who never built so much as a dog house on their own?
Even now, almost a year later, the thing is still held together with duct tape and bailing wire. The back-end remains largely dysfunctional. HHS can't verify 1/3 of the applicants' citizenship or income eligibility. And half of the new enrollees are in Medicaid, which has created a whole 'nother kind of time bomb.
As my friend Bob used to say about bad news, "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
In the 1950's our government built the Interstate Highway System.
In the 1960's our government put a man on the moon.
Today, not only can't they build a website, or a highway, they can't go back to the moon, or even get their own people up into space without help from the Russians.
But we've now got more Americans on food stamps than ever before.
Apparently this is "progress." If you're a liberal.
Posted at 16:09 by Chris Wysocki
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