The botched Obamacare website is not the worst thing about the health
care law, but it has created enormous problems for those trying to
apply for insurance. CGI, the global information-technology company
responsible for the debacle, previously botched Canada's gun-registry
computer systems, yet was still given a massive contract by the Obama
administration.
On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius testified on Capitol Hill, "In the last five weeks,
access to HealthCare.gov has been a miserably frustrating experience for
far too many of these Americans." Mrs. Sebelius told the Senate Finance
Committee hearing on Obamacare that a "couple of hundred functional
fixes" were being installed on the site with the goal of making it
functional by the end of November — a full two months after it went
live.
The Department of Health and Human Services has not
disclosed why it gave this massive contract — estimated to cost up to
$600 million — to build the Obamacare website to CGI. Mr. Obama promised
at a fundraiser on Monday that the site "would get fixed," but then
there needs to be a discussion "about federal procurement when it comes
to IT."
Whatever the reason for giving CGI this contract, it was
not based on a successful record of maintaining sensitive personal
information for a government. Tony Bernardo, the executive director of
the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, that nation's largest
gun-advocacy group, is forced to help its members deal with the fallout
from the disastrous Canadian gun-registration computer system.
"Whoever hired CGI to do Obamacare didn't check the background of this
company," Mr. Bernardo said in an interview. "They could screw up the
Lord's Prayer."
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