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resident Barack Obamas health agency said it has spent $319 million building an online health-insurance marketplace through October.
More than three years after the passage of Obamas signature health-care law in 2010, its almost impossible to verify and track that spending through public records.
What the estimates dont include is the around-the-clock effort to repair the website, which hundreds of thousands of Americans found unusable after its Oct. 1 debut. The race to fix it brought in computer engineers from companies such as Google Inc., Red Hat Inc. and Oracle Corp. and is ongoing today.
The figures include what has been paid to contractors, according to Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the health department. The spending details should be accessible on public websites intended to offer government transparency. Instead, the sites present incomplete and sometimes contradictory data, according to open government advocates.
full: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-10/hidden-obamacare-website-costs-show-lack-of-transparency.html
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)aptal
(304 posts)Who cares, it's all going to work out in the end for the better of this country. It needed to be done.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Nit-picking at its finest
Orrex
(63,219 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)"The website is garbage, the website doesn't work!" They fix it: "We don't know how much they spent to fix it!"
Good lord.