Michelle Obama's College
Classmate's Firm Built Obamacare Website Disaster
In mid-October The
Washington Examiner reported that Federal Officials only considered one firm
to build the epic fail now known as healthcare.gov. When that story
broke, you had to suspect that someone probably had a kickback coming. Richard
Pollock reported on October 13th:
Federal officials considered only one
firm to design the Obamacare health insurance exchange website that
has performed abysmally since its Oct. 1 debut. Rather than open the
contracting process to a competitive public solicitation with multiple bidders,
officials in the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid accepted
a sole bidder, CGI Federal, the U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian company with an
uneven record of IT pricing and contract performance.
CMS officials are tight-lipped about
why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed
with CGI, or if there was ever a public
solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of Obamacare's
problem-plagued web portal.
Why was CGI chosen and
how did this happen? Good question. Could it be that a certain First Lady might
have had an inside track with that company? That would never happen. This is surely
coincidence. But even though it is probably coincidental it pains me to report that
a college classmate of Michelle Obama just happens to be a high
ranking executive at CGI.
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