A Canadian company was the only bidder considered? WTF? http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/m...tive-at-company-that-built-obamacare-website/ She be one rich friend now, heh?
lol. American politics is built on cronyism and favors... and NOW you're concerned that Michelle Obama's friend built the Obamacare website? Oh, no, where is the outrage?! What an unprecedented act of corruption!
No, but you would think something that Obama is trying to make a staple of our country would at least be made in the USA?
It doesn't bother me, per se, she has an old classmate at that company. It's the no bid aspect I don't like.
I'm pretty sure the republicans set the gold standard for no bid contracts in 2003, and this doesn't even move the needle. A website? Oh noes.
Why wouldn't you? I don't feed my dogs stuff that isn't made here and holy hell...just read about dead dogs possibly from Chinese dog snacks. Did the website cost 687 million dollars? What the fuck? I could pick a ninth grade illegal from a Vegas school and have this website up and running in Spanish and English in a week for 50 bucks.
That's not what I was arguing. I asked Mags why he would think that Obama would give the contract to Americans. I haven't given an opinion on that yet.
Not shocking that this kind of stuff gets vomited onto the forum by chain-mail grandpa without even a simple google search. That number is wrong. Look, even Glenn Beck's news site debunks it. Lol. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...ght-be-glitchy-but-it-didnt-cost-634-million/
How do they know what it cost to build? It is not working yet. The C&C say the end of November, so how much can his Tiger team dump in there by then?
The question you should be asking yourself, MarAzul, is how the Executive Branch (whether the President, or HHS, or whoever) can declare that the populace can postpone following a law that's been passed by the Legislative Branch and confirmed by the Judicial Branch, for whatever reason. As I'm reading it, if the site isn't working well on Feb. 15 (the last date for you to get insurance that covers March, and therefore gives you 10 months that year of coverage and reduces the penalty), no one in the Executive Branch has the constitutional authority to say "we're going to ignore the penalty section of that law (1% of your salary or $295/family, whichever is greater) because the website's messed up." They can send an amended bill back to Congress, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that no PPACA amendment is going to make it through the House this time. Now, we'll see what happens IF that happens. Amazon took almost a decade to perfect being able to order a TV on a "millions of customers" scale. Can the gov't do it better?
Here's something interesting from MarketWatch: (note: The White House already debunked that the mandate date would be moved...I'm bringing up the Executive-Branch-Writing-the-Rules issue) NBC News reports the Obama administration will delay the Obamacare individual mandate by as long as six weeks following the glitch-ridden rollout of the health care law’s website, healthcare.gov. ...“NBC is wrong again,” tweeted Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest. “Individual mandate timing hasnt changed. Deadline for having insurance is March 31. Was true this am. Is true tonight.”
Makes n o difference if it's lefties or righties, unless there's really good justification I am not a fan of awarding large contracts in the absence of open bidding.
