Obamacare Waste Continues to Pile Up

Heartland ^ | 9/26/15 | Justin Haskins

[Libloather]

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According to Whitehouse.gov, an official website of the Obamacare administration, the ACA “reduces health care costs,” in part, “by … cracking down on waste, fraud, and abuse.”

A new government audit of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) management of contracts made with eight companies that helped to build the Healthcare.gov website, shows the 20 contracts “most critical to the website’s operation” – worth roughly $600 million in total – were incredibly mismanaged. According to the report, millions were wasted in cost overruns, shoddy practices, and poor business practices.

John Tozzi of Bloomberg Business reports the primary reason for the mismanagement is that government employees managing the contracts were completely unprepared for the responsibilities given to them.

[Libloather]

The reckless treatment of taxpayers’ hard-earned money is hardly a novel problem for government or Obamacare. Estimates released in 2014 found the failing state health insurance exchanges in Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Oregon wasted $474 million. Phil Kerpen at The Federalist, however, says the figure should be much closer to $1.2 billion.

Good times.

[Patriot Babe]

Wow my eyes need some checking. I thought the heading said “Obama waste continues to pile up”. My response was “that is why he is a POS!

[UCANSEE2]

According to Whitehouse.gov, an official website of the Obamacare administration, the ACA “reduces health care costs,” in part, “by … cracking down on waste, fraud, and abuse.”

In an amazing coincidence, the percentage figure for "IN PART" is exactly equal to the amount of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere.

[Amendment10]

"Phil Kerpen at The Federalist, however, says the figure should be much closer to $1.2 billion."

As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.

Although I don’t see Trump’s proposed border wall as one of Congress’s Article I, Section 8-limited powers, unless perhaps it is argued as a military expense, the alleged price for Obamacare waste is making Trump’s wall look like a bargain.

[noinfringers2]

I have retrieved from the internet a listing of 10 schools of higher learning/universities with dollars spent/aid on/for international under graduate students. The amount is appalling. It makes me believe that the higher education system today is as much a societal bonking system as an education system.

[Cyman]

Nothing reckless about it, to use CMS’s own term it is HEALTHCARE FRAUD. And several people need to be going to jail for it.

[ronnie raygun]

These are scams parading as people programs to siphon money into thier pockets much like the mafia

[thirst4truth]

Oregon wasted $300,000,000 on their failed heath care website. Then the "smart" people of Oregon reelected the doofus that did that, unbelievable. But it was all a scam to get in the un-electable one, the Bi-Kate Brown, that is how they described her for weeks all I know about her is she is a bisexual.

So now all the obamacare care enrollees are on state medicaid, we are going broke over it, and then recently the medicaid supervisors just approved a new health treatment they will cover with medicaid; transgender hormone treatment and surgery for under age children without their parents permission!!

[Cubs Fan]

Obama - king of failure