“Entire Healthcare Reform Program” Jeopardized Unless Accenture Fixes Healthcare.gov By Mid-March
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
01/19/2014
How does the Federal government explain this scramble to hand over the “sole-sourced” healthcare.gov IT contract (to a company made possible thanks to Enron) so late in the process? Simple: the usual mutually assured destruction tactic used so “effectively” in all other recent rushed decisions. As the Hill reports, unless Accenture finishes (and fixes) the back-end of the HealthCare.gov portal by mid-March, the healthcare law will be jeopardized, according to a procurement document posted on a federal website. The punchline: “It says insurers could be bankrupt and the entire healthcare industry threatened if the build out is not completed.” In other words, a newly retained consulting company has less than three months to fix all the errors of coding by a different company, and make sure healthcare.gov is working properly… all 500 million lines of healthcare.gov’s code?
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