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Experts stunned at cost for Healthcare.gov website development
My FOX-TV DC ^ | October 22, 2013

Posted on 10/22/2013 6:05:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

“My overall sense, right from day one, was it was created by people who had never created a commercial database application before," said FMS Software developer Luke Chung.

Chung looked over the site and was stunned by the code and the cost - by some estimates, perhaps $200 million.

Chung continued, “At $200 an hour, that would be a million man hours, 5,000 man years. I don't think they had time to use 5,000 man years. So I don't know where the money went. I don't know what these people were doing. There're not that many web pages. I don't get it! Where'd the money go?"

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; cgifederal; failure; fundingtheleft; healthcaredotgov; obamacare; obamacaregraphics; obamacaresoftware; obamacarewebsite; pricetag; rinocare; slushfund
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Where'd the money go?

How many guesses do I get?

101 posted on 10/22/2013 8:45:19 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
At least $394 million of it went to these contractors, starting on page 35. It's a massive boondoggle. This is from the Gov Accounting Office as of June 2013. Don't pin the blame on CGI. Lots of hands in the kitty...
102 posted on 10/22/2013 9:08:04 AM PDT by tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The remnants of Acorn had computer programmers? Who knew?


103 posted on 10/22/2013 9:12:55 AM PDT by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: volunbeer

Maybe they used Romney’s ORCA team.


104 posted on 10/22/2013 9:13:33 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: albie

No, he’s Wang Chung’s brother.


105 posted on 10/22/2013 9:18:14 AM PDT by reegs
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
see: Corruption, Tweed Courthouse

or, read this.

106 posted on 10/22/2013 9:24:11 AM PDT by Oratam (Thank you St. Jude!)
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To: crosslink

I just found out that ‘glitch’ is the Swahili word for ‘Fail’.


107 posted on 10/22/2013 9:29:32 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: privatedrive

That’s a lot for such a minor website


108 posted on 10/22/2013 9:33:07 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

I guess there will be a Special Prosecutor to investiugate this matter...maybe after the one for NSA...or IRS...or Benghazi...or????????? Shameful.


109 posted on 10/22/2013 9:34:56 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The 0-care Money Pit
110 posted on 10/22/2013 9:38:17 AM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

111 posted on 10/22/2013 9:49:11 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where did the money go? At this point, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?

There was a skit on Jon Stewart last night where a guy trying to log on got sucked into the program. Instead of the code being ones and zeros, it was fours and fives.


112 posted on 10/22/2013 10:13:05 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone once said, “You can sell anything to the government at almost any price you’ve got the guts to ask.” Unfortunately that individual was selling stuff to the government during the Civil War. It’s true then. It’s true now.


113 posted on 10/22/2013 10:17:09 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

114 posted on 10/22/2013 10:21:26 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: VerySadAmerican
Instead of the code being ones and zeros, it was fours and fives.

I'd say more like sixes and sevens.

115 posted on 10/22/2013 10:22:12 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: dfwgator

Because republicans control the House.


116 posted on 10/22/2013 10:56:34 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I don't get it! Where'd the money go?"

It went into the Utah NSA/IRS/DHS data center.

117 posted on 10/22/2013 10:57:23 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is what it was like in Saddam’s Iraq. Everything cost x to the 100 more,and the extras went into the cronies’ pockets. I hope that $ is making Uday and Qsay so happy these days...


118 posted on 10/22/2013 11:00:35 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

“Being a boy-king ain’t easy.”

You got that right.

And being one of his pseudo-subjects ain’t no walk in the park either.


119 posted on 10/22/2013 11:28:17 AM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I wonder how many Caribbean vacations these incompetent thieves took on our dime when they should have been designing code.

Crony Chicago politics strikes again.

120 posted on 10/22/2013 12:08:17 PM PDT by what's up
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