Healthcare.gov contractor says it flagged problems

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A House committee released a letter from CGI, one of the main developers of the government's health insurance website.  

The Hill: Oversight Documents: Contractor Kicks Blame Back To HHS
House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) released documents late Tuesday from one of the primary ObamaCare contractors that show the company warned a key government agency that there wasn't adequate time to test the system before going live. According to the documents, employees at CGI Federal said in a status report that "due to the compressed schedule, there is not enough time built in to allow for adequate performance testing" (Easley, 10/29).

The Washington Post: CGI Warned Of Healthcare.gov Problems A Month Before Launch, Documents Show
The firm, which was responsible for both constructing key elements of the sites and helping interweave them, cautioned that "hub services are intermittently unavailable" and the time allotted for testing was "not adequate to complete full functional, system, and integration testing activities." They rated problems as "near certainty" and "highly likely" and rated the impact as "significant" or "severe."  CGI turned over the report to the House panel in response to an Oct.23 letter asking for more information (Eilperin, 10/29).


http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

 

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  1. Dezso Sablack Dezso Sablack United States says:

    The United States needs to send Obama and those 535 persons ( who are working directly or indirectly for the bad  part of the one percent), who  has control of our medical technology for profit.  Yes, we are among the highest in technology.

    We need to send the 535 persons to the top ten medical country’s to restore America as in the   50’s and below.  We are 38 down among 45 nations against long memory and life  for profit.  The United States have very different health care systems. Health care is provided for all in Japan and has been since 1961. All citizens are required to get health insurance. The Japanese health care system has been praised for its accessibility. It has also given the doctors more control over how they perform medical procedures. As a result, the overall health of individuals has improved over the last 50 years.
    The cost of health care is very drastic when comparing per capita for medical expenses. Japan's is roughly 2,326 American dollars. The United States per capita for medical expenses is 6400 American dollars.  A per capita medical expense does an excellent job of showing how a country with similar economies and governments has different costs for health care.

    This, however, is not the case in the United States. The United States is currently suffering from a health care crisis. Over 47 million Americans are without health insurance. 9 million of them are children. On top of that, Americans have to pay out of pocket costs at a higher rate. The Price of health insurance is also rising in the United States. Some employers are putting more of the cost on the employees because of this. The American public is being harmed by the health care industry. Some people have to decide whether or not to put food on the table or go to the doctor. Children across this country don't get the proper care they need because their parents can't afford it. This is not right. When considering the prosperity of the United States, there should not be a single child without health insurance.

    America has more medical errors when compared to other nations like Great Britain and Australia. The United States should defiantly look at what other democratic nations have done with the public health care systems though.

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