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No it's not "right wing spin". The bigger number is total awards to CGI as a company and the $94M is what they got for doing their part of the healthcare system
by sigzero 13y ago
No it's not "right wing spin". The bigger number is total awards to CGI as a company and the $94M is what they got for doing their part of the healthcare system. People are just confusing the two.
- flavor8 13y agoIt absolutely is right wing spin. Yes, the bigger number is the total awards to CGI. But the story being pushed by the right wing is "we spent $650M for a website that doesn't work", which has confused a lot of people. $94M for a website is absurd, and reeks of incompetence and bureaucracy. $650M for a website would be downright fraudulent. It's not a coincidence that it's the latter number that's being talked about.
- EdSharkey 13y agoIn the big picture of the mess of the ACA from the bill writing to passage by way of reconciliation, push back of the states, twisted supreme court logic, the president deciding illegally what parts of the law to implement, and now this states' and federal IT debacle, I find someone getting dollar figure wrong as to how much the website frontend cost to be of no consequence. Your attempt to silence debate by shaming those you disagree with has been noted.
- snowwrestler 13y agoACA was passed under regular order.