ObamaCare Website's Price Tag: $634M!!!!

[boedicca]

The original estimate for the ObamaCare website was $93.7M...and the bid was awarded to a typical Big Government Contractor. The actual cost is $634M.

Consider this a preview of coming ObamaCare cost overruns and validation as to the true purpose of the ACA: to reward Big Government Cronies.


...The exact cost to build Healthcare.gov, according to U.S. government records, appears to have been $634,320,919, which we paid to a company you probably never heard of: CGI Federal. The company originally won the contract back in 2011, but at that time, the cost was expected to run “up to” $93.7 million – still a chunk of change, but nothing near where it ended up.

Given the complicated nature of federal contracts, it’s difficult to make a direct comparison between the cost to develop Healthcare.gov and the amount of money spent building private online businesses. But for the sake of putting the monstrous amount of money into perspective, here are a few figures to chew on: Facebook, which received its first investment in June 2004, operated for a full six years before surpassing the $600 million mark in June 2010. Twitter, created in 2006, managed to get by with only $360.17 million in total funding until a $400 million boost in 2011. Instagram ginned up just $57.5 million in funding before Facebook bought it for (a staggering) $1 billion last year. And LinkedIn and Spotify, meanwhile, have only raised, respectively, $200 million and $288 million.

Healthcare.gov errorGovernment has a long history of spending money unnecessarily. But in an age when the U.S is home to the world’s largest, most successful Internet companies, how is it possible that we can’t even manage to build a functional website without blowing through hundreds of millions of dollars?....


Obamacare's broken website cost more than LinkedIn, Spotify combined | Digital Trends

 

[depotoo]

if people can't see through this scam, well, nevermind. Unfortunately a tremendous number of the electorate refuse to open their eyes, as it would be too painful to deal with the truths they would see.

 

[boedicca]

The scales are starting to fall...as people realize that their premiums are not going to go down by $2,500.

 

[Duped]

Liberals don't care about national numbers - when it hits them in their own pockets, thats when they'll get shitty.

 

[healthmyths]

And I've been excoriated for just asking this simple question that NO one yet seems to comprehend the magnitude of this falsehood.
I think what has happened WHY extremely few media and very few of the public can comprehend the following is because it is SO simple!
Most people just don't believe this number. They say they know people that are "uninsured" and I"M sure they do! I know two people!

BUT the problem is those anecdotes i.e. those that know their friends are "uninsured" etc. don't know the following:
A) is it possible the uninsured friend is NOT a legal citizens? The Census says there are 10 million counted as "uninsured' are NOT citizens.
10 million SOURCE: US Census Bureau

B) Is it possible that the uninsured friend doesn't know they qualify for Medicaid... which is that 14 million people are eligible ... just haven't registered!
14 million SOURCE: http://coverageforall.org/pdf/BC-BS_Uninsured-America.pdf

C) Is it possible the uninsured friend is under 34, makes over $50K and doesn't want to pay for employers' insurance 18 million people counted as uninsured
DON"T WANT IT!!!
18 million Source: CRISIS OF THE UNINSURED: 2009

That adds up to 42 million that don't want, are qualified for Medicaid and aren't citizens.. leaving 4 million truly that want and need insurance!

But because this simple analysis has NOT been evidently comprehended by the 7 "YES" Congressional votes and the MSM and Many conservatives!
I am sure once more people like you after looking at the above links... YOU will be PISSED! You will ask your local media WHY they aren't reporting this?
46 million people is the objective that passed Obamacare!
Do you think there would have been 7 "YES" votes if they understood these three numbers???

 

[DiamondDave]

They will tell us it is a bargain and actually a price cut

 

[g5000]

ObamaCare is a stepping stone to single payer healthcare.

 

[Claudette]

Here's a little factoid on Obamacar. Interesting reading and the out of pocket expenses are through the roof.

Obamacare Premiums Are the Tip of Consumer Costs | The Fiscal Times

 

[Pennywise]

The collective intelligence of the Obama supporters could not power the workings of a Tampon machine in a highway rest stop ladies room.

 

[RDD_1210]

ObamaCare is a stepping stone to single payer healthcare.

Let's hope.

 

[RDD_1210]

The collective intelligence of the Obama supporters could not power the workings of a Tampon machine in a highway rest stop ladies room.

This is when you get to tell us how you're so familiar with tampon machines at highway rest stops.

 

[Spiderman]

Not one government project has ever come in on time or on budget and yet so many of you morons want the government to do more.

Why is that?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

This can't possibly be true...$634mil doesn't make any sense whatsoever. If everyone working on the project billed $1000 per hour - each person..that would be 63,400 hours or 7 years.
That can't be right. If it is...there needs to be an independent investigation into this company since that would OBVIOUSLY be gross fraud.

 

[g5000]

When RomneyCare launched in Massachusetts, it was a rolling wreck. A disaster. There were massive cost overruns. A lot of people were predicting its imminent demise.

Five years later, 74 percent of the people of Massachusetts said they want to keep RomneyCare around.

74 percent. That's a super-super-majority.

If you are creaming your jeans over some startup troubles of a web site on Day One, you are missing the forest for the trees. Five years from now, 74 percent of Americans are going to steamroll right over you.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

ObamaCare is a stepping stone to single payer healthcare.

It always was. Look at the slew of failures occurring right now with this law and now the dems are already screaming that the fix to their travesty is another travesty.

 

[Avorysuds]

When RomneyCare launched in Massachusetts, it was a rolling wreck. A disaster. There were massive cost overruns. A lot of people were predicting its imminent demise.

Five years later, 74 percent of the people of Massachusetts said they want to keep RomneyCare around.

74 percent. That's a super-super-majority.

If you are creaming your jeans over some startup troubles of a web site on Day One, you are missing the forest for the trees. Five years from now, 74 percent of Americans are going to steamroll right over you.

Yes, it also requires something around 500 million a year from federal Government to keep it running. Where the fuck is the Feds gonna get the hundreds of billions it will need g5?

Just keep droning on and on g5. Yeah we get it, people love welfare... But they also fear mass deficits, something Massachusetts passes on rather than be taxed to pay for or ever even see. That can't happen on the federal side.

 

[Jarhead]

When RomneyCare launched in Massachusetts, it was a rolling wreck. A disaster. There were massive cost overruns. A lot of people were predicting its imminent demise.

Five years later, 74 percent of the people of Massachusetts said they want to keep RomneyCare around.

74 percent. That's a super-super-majority.

If you are creaming your jeans over some startup troubles of a web site on Day One, you are missing the forest for the trees. Five years from now, 74 percent of Americans are going to steamroll right over you.

Yes, it also requires something around 500 million a year from federal Government to keep it running. Where the fuck is the Feds gonna get the hundreds of billions it will need g5?

Just keep droning on and on g5. Yeah we get it, people love welfare... But they also fear mass deficits, something Massachusetts passes on rather than be taxed to pay for or ever even see. That can't happen on the federal side.

Actually, those that reap the benefits of the entitlement programs such as welfare, food stamps and the ACA have absolutely NO FEAR of mass deficits.

Sadly, it is those that don't reap the benefits of those programs, but instead involuntarily subsidize them, that fear mass deficits.

 

[DiamondDave]

ObamaCare is a stepping stone to single payer healthcare.

Let's hope.

Pass an amendment, fucktard

 

[DiamondDave]

When RomneyCare launched in Massachusetts, it was a rolling wreck. A disaster. There were massive cost overruns. A lot of people were predicting its imminent demise.

Five years later, 74 percent of the people of Massachusetts said they want to keep RomneyCare around.

74 percent. That's a super-super-majority.

If you are creaming your jeans over some startup troubles of a web site on Day One, you are missing the forest for the trees. Five years from now, 74 percent of Americans are going to steamroll right over you.

Yes, it also requires something around 500 million a year from federal Government to keep it running. Where the fuck is the Feds gonna get the hundreds of billions it will need g5?

Just keep droning on and on g5. Yeah we get it, people love welfare... But they also fear mass deficits, something Massachusetts passes on rather than be taxed to pay for or ever even see. That can't happen on the federal side.

Actually, those that reap the benefits of the entitlement programs such as welfare, food stamps and the ACA have absolutely NO FEAR of mass deficits.

Sadly, it is those that don't reap the benefits of those programs, but instead involuntarily subsidize them, that fear mass deficits.

Bingo

Which is why the dems want more entitlements in the govt and more people on them.. it buys them votes and power

 

[Claudette]

Here's a little run down on Romneycare.

RomneyCare - The Truth about Massachusetts Health Care | Mitt Romney Central

Loads of Fed tax dollars are needed to keep it running and it still has its problems.

MA is one small State. One has to wonder how Obamacare is going to run with 300 million people.

Also those getting subsidized by we the taxpayer will love it. Its always easy when someone else is footing the bill.