Posted on 02/04/2014 11:01:19 AM PST by Rusty0604
One lawmaker has blown the whistle on deceptive reports sent to the federal government that allowed Oregon to get tens of millions of dollars from Washington for the project, allegedly including dummy web pages intended to fool HHS into believing that Cover Oregon development was on schedule.
Let’s make sure to note that this doesn’t appear to be a very effective fraud, except when targeted at the truly ignorant. After all, an agency that’s certifying work for a state exchange should have the wherewithal to check the actual functionality. If a bunch of non-functioning web pages was enough to fool HHS into writing $59 million in checks, then the web pages weren’t the only dummies involved here.
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It’s an Oregon Ping!
Fraud in liberal Oregon. How can this be?
This is very common among vendors. They will show a prototype mock-up like it is the working system. If the customer buys it, then they create the real one.
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