Monday, October 14, 2013

Crony Corruption And Effectiveness Don't Mix

How federal cronies built -- and botched -- Healthcare.gov | E government - InfoWorld: "The biggest problem with Healthcare.gov seems simple enough: It was built by people who are apparently far more familiar with government cronyism than they are with IT.

That's one of the insights that can be gleaned from the work done by the Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that focuses on government transparency. In a report filed this past week, the group examined why the system broke as horribly as it did: The contracts awarded to those who built it were, by and large, existing government contractors with "deep political pockets.""
The website turns out to be a mirror of the crony corruption that gave us Obamacare in the first place. What a shock.