- Obamacare website cost more than FACEBOOK, TWITTER, LINKEDIN, INSTAGRAM...
- 'How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?'
- Major insurers, Dem allies repeatedly warned Obama admin...
- REPORT: WH knew site might not be ready...
- POLL: Just 1 in 10 report success...
DNC head says site designed for 50,000 max... - Once you get in, you can't get out...
- Crazzzzzzzy code...
- 'It looks like nobody tested it'...
- WASHPOST: Not code, but 'outdated, costly, buggy technology'...
- CARNEY: 'I Don’t Know' If Obama Has Tried Website...
- Hawaii forced to relaunch after zero sign-ups...
Gross: U.S. Taxpayers Shelled Out $634,320,919 To Build Obamacare Website…
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 ended up.