Billion-dollar ObamaCare contract pays people to do… nothing

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This is yet another astounding display of failure by Obama and the Democrats...

What kind of business could possibly survive by simply hitting refresh buttons every 10 minutes while no business comes across their desks? If you guessed public sector, congratulations, and claim a bonus for specifying ObamaCare. St Louis’ KMOV News looked into an ObamaCare contractor with a billion-dollar contract after hearing employee complaints that the well-motivated workforce is getting paid to do nothing — a whole lot of nothing.

“A billion dollar government contract involving hundreds of local workers at an Obamacare processing center … But now employees on the inside are stepping forward, asking, Is this why we’re broke? Some of them claim to spend most of their day doing nothing,” reports a local St. Louis reporter.

The contractor is called Serco and local reporter discovered that, despite there not being any work to be done, the government contractor is still hiring.

“The company is still hiring,” says a local reporter. “A current employee wonders why … After providing proof of employment, this Serco employee agreed to speak through the phone with their voice altered. The employee says hundreds of employees spend much of the day staring at computer screens, with little or no work to do.”

The reporter asks the employee, “Are there some days where a data entry person may not process one single application?”

“There are weeks when a data entry person would not process an application,” the employee responds.

The reporter explains, “The facility is one of three Serco locations that process paper applications, people seeking to qualify for insurance.”

“It’s no secret, the rollout for the website was a mess. But now that the website is running, this employee says the paper applications are trickling in less and less. Our employee doesn’t appear to be the only one complaining. On April 16, a person claiming to be a former Serco employee posted this online, ‘This place is a JOKE. There’s nothing to do–NO WORK.’”

Billion-dollar ObamaCare contract pays people to do nothing
 
So corporations aren't evil?

It's our government squandering money.

Paying way too much for way too little.

Remember the $298 hammer?

I wonder how Serco got the contract.

Sad thing is, when the contract is up, people are out of jobs.

What a fkn waste!
 
So corporations aren't evil?

It's our government squandering money.

Paying way too much for way too little.

Remember the $298 hammer?

I wonder how Serco got the contract.

Sad thing is, when the contract is up, people are out of jobs.

What a fkn waste!

A company billing the government $298 for a hammer?

How many BILLIONS did Halliburton loose? Then turned tail to the UAE.

It's NOT the government sir, it's the fuckers that cheat the taxpayers.
 
So corporations aren't evil?

It's our government squandering money.

Paying way too much for way too little.

Remember the $298 hammer?

I wonder how Serco got the contract.

Sad thing is, when the contract is up, people are out of jobs.

What a fkn waste!

A company billing the government $298 for a hammer?

How many BILLIONS did Halliburton loose? Then turned tail to the UAE.

It's NOT the government sir, it's the fuckers that cheat the taxpayers.

Wrong!

It's the Government that approved the payment of the $298 hammer.
 
This is the govt contract and it is not complete yet. Audit should be conduct of this contract.
 
It's our government squandering money.

Paying way too much for way too little.

Remember the $298 hammer?

I wonder how Serco got the contract.

Sad thing is, when the contract is up, people are out of jobs.

What a fkn waste!

A company billing the government $298 for a hammer?

How many BILLIONS did Halliburton loose? Then turned tail to the UAE.

It's NOT the government sir, it's the fuckers that cheat the taxpayers.

Wrong!

It's the Government that approved the payment of the $298 hammer.

So it's OK for me to bill the government for more than a private contract?
 
A company billing the government $298 for a hammer?

How many BILLIONS did Halliburton loose? Then turned tail to the UAE.

It's NOT the government sir, it's the fuckers that cheat the taxpayers.

Wrong!

It's the Government that approved the payment of the $298 hammer.

So it's OK for me to bill the government for more than a private contract?

^^^Strawman response.

Government should know wth is in the contract before it's signed.
Government shouldn't be signing a contract that overcharges for a hammer.

Who approved the contract?

Further, why is the USA contracting with overseas companies to do....paperwork?
 
Just another made up scandal! And the same people that complain about this complain about the unemployment rate going down because people are leaving the workforce.

Congratulations Obama on a jobs program that works!
 
Wrong!

It's the Government that approved the payment of the $298 hammer.

So it's OK for me to bill the government for more than a private contract?

^^^Strawman response.

Government should know wth is in the contract before it's signed.
Government shouldn't be signing a contract that overcharges for a hammer.

Who approved the contract?

Further, why is the USA contracting with overseas companies to do....paperwork?

Not straw man at all.

Government contract costs are almost always misrepresented by the contractor. For instance, a recent contract for insulation and maintenance of radio repeaters for Cal Fire on cell towers was issued. My bid came in 33% less than my competitor and I won. My competitor had state contract administrators convinced that his bid was the lowest that one could go without loosing money. I showed them the competitor was full of bullshit. I win, he looses.

Further, why is the USA contracting with overseas companies to do....paperwork?

Which US company was capable of doing the job?
 
Just another made up scandal! And the same people that complain about this complain about the unemployment rate going down because people are leaving the workforce.

Congratulations Obama on a jobs program that works!

Republicans have nothing to offer the middle class.
 

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