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This site was commissioned in the wake of the obamacare market roll out which was an absolute cluster fuck. The idea was basically "ok so it turns out we're com

This site was commissioned in the wake of the obamacare market roll out which was an absolute cluster fuck. The idea was basically "ok so it turns out we're completely incapable of building a website without it falling over once we turn it on, lets let the private sector do it and incentivize them to make it good by letting them charge a fee when people use it". So I guess the difficult is that whoever came up with this website didn't believe the government could deliver it. Also thad the benefit of the site being free in terms of upfront costs.

strbean 3y ago
Well that's a hell of a scam, because contractors built the first rendition of HealthCare.gov that failed miserably: > Development of the website's interface as well as its supporting back-end services, to make sure that the website could work to help people compare between health insurance plans, were both outsourced to private companies. The front-end of the website was developed by the startup Development Seed. The back-end work was contracted out to CGI Federal Inc., a subsidiary of the Canadian IT Multinational corporation| CGI Group, which subcontracted the work to other companies, as is common on large government contracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov This is particularly sad to me because this kind of thing should probably be a core competency of a modern government. The novel Jennifer Government lied to me :(