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MA Fires CGI for Health Connector Site Failures

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 18 2014, @05:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the same-thing-over-and-over-again-and-expexting-different-results dept.

GungnirSniper writes:

"CGI Group, the Montreal-based IT consulting company behind the botched rollout of the Federal Healthcare.gov site, has been removed from the Massachusetts Health Connector project. This comes about two months after being removed from Healthcare.gov, and a few weeks after CGI admitted the MA site 'may not be fully functioning by the end of June, and that one option under consideration is to scrap the multi-million-dollar site and start over.'

Like Oregon's similar troubles, Massachusetts uses paper submissions as a workaround to meet Federal sign-up requirements. 'The paper backlog fell to 21,000 pending applications, from 54,000 two weeks ago.'

If you are in the US, have you used Healthcare.gov or a State equivalent? If you are not in the US, do you use similar online systems in your nation?"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by spxero on Tuesday March 18 2014, @11:55AM

    by spxero (3061) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @11:55AM (#18138)

    You're right- not everyone does. But the cost doesn't seem to line up with the benefit. My employer isn't paying that much more than I am for my coverage (I pay roughly $350/mo), but to get this coverage through the ACA would cost me somewhere around $2k/mo. Unless forced to, I don't see too many people signing up at $2k/mo to help subsidize the people only paying $100/mo.

    As an aside, a few years back I lived in a state where I was terminated and unable to get unemployment benefits because the Workforce Commission liked the employer's story of why I was terminated better than mine.