Re:HealthCare.gov: It almost worked
by hga on Saturday January 04, 2014 @03:41PM
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It's been reliably reported you are correct, shots were being called from the White House, on down through HHS to CMS, which was officially the general contractor/system integrator before they got "fired" in the 3rd week of October.
Whereas it's been reported that Kentuky's prime contractor, Deloitte, was absolutely ruthless about that sort of thing to achieve the goal of having something of value working by the deadline.
Oregon is also an even worse example of Healthcare.gov style mismanagement, with two dueling state government organizations, one of which did the usual trick of telling the contractor's employees to stop talking to the other unit....
Whereas it's been reported that Kentuky's prime contractor, Deloitte, was absolutely ruthless about that sort of thing to achieve the goal of having something of value working by the deadline.
Oregon is also an even worse example of Healthcare.gov style mismanagement, with two dueling state government organizations, one of which did the usual trick of telling the contractor's employees to stop talking to the other unit....