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Do you not remember the launch failure of healthcare.gov? The original site was built by federal contractors, who took over 300 million dollars, and it failed o
by _fs 3y ago
Do you not remember the launch failure of healthcare.gov? The original site was built by federal contractors, who took over 300 million dollars, and it failed on day 1. Day 2, Obama brought in private, US Tech companies to fix it.
- manicennui 3y agoYes, I remember, and it was built by private companies. "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.[2] 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.[11] CGI was also responsible for building some of the state-level healthcare exchanges, with varying levels of success (some did not open on schedule).[9]" CGI is the company that was the focus of the blame at the time.