What to Expect as Obamacare Rolls Out
Written by Chriss W. Street
Now that the Congress has agreed to implement the Patient Protection and Affordability Act (Obamacare) on January 1st, it is clear that the inoperability of the Plan Finder Program that the federal government operates to enroll new clients is giving black eye to American technological capabilities. Actually, the contract performance of the software program was very consistent with the way government operates. The original contract was awarded to Verizon’s cloud computing division Terremark in April 2011 for $10.8 million. But because the government changed the design parameters seven times, the price tripled to $35.5 million. The software operates exactly as the government designed it; it just doesn’t work with volume and has huge identity theft security flaws. Continue reading