The $634,320,919 406 error code

[Quantum Windbag]

We paid $634,320,919 for the health care exchange, which is a bit more than the maximum estimate of $93.7 million it was supposed to cost, and it doesn't work.

Why not? Why don't I let a pro Obamacare expert explain it to you.

I included an extra paragraph in my quote to give the idiots that never read links an idea of how mush something like this might have cost if it was built by an internet startup.

It’s been one full week since the flagship technology portion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) went live. And since that time, the befuddled beast that is Healthcare.gov has shutdown, crapped out, stalled, and mis-loaded so consistently that its track record for failure is challenged only by Congress.
The site itself, which apparently underwent major code renovations over the weekend, still rejects user logins, fails to load drop-down menus and other crucial components for users that successfully gain entrance, and otherwise prevents uninsured Americans in the 36 states it serves from purchasing healthcare at competitive rates – Healthcare.gov’s primary purpose. The site is so busted that, as of a couple days ago, the number of people that successfully purchased healthcare through it was in the “single digits,” according to the Washington Post.
The reason for this nationwide headache apparently stems from poorly written code, which buckled under the heavy influx of traffic that its engineers and administrators should have seen coming. But the fact that Healthcare.gov can’t do the one job it was built to do isn’t the most infuriating part of this debacle – it’s that we, the taxpayers, seem to have forked up more than $634 million of the federal purse to build the digital equivalent of a rock.
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 apparently 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.

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

 

[kiwiman127]

I've never understood your problem with government waste and incompetence.
Will ya get a life?

 

[TakeAStepBack]

I've never understood your problem with government waste and incompetence.
Will ya get a life?

Well, it's easy to not care when you're receiving checks from them instead of being robbed.....

 

[kiwiman127]

I've never understood your problem with government waste and incompetence.
Will ya get a life?

Well, it's easy to not care when you're receiving checks from them instead of being robbed.....

Soooo, you're getting checks from them? How do ya do that? Should I fake an injury at work or something? What works for you?